An Appeal to the World 

for 

A Chapel in Every Home 




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An Appeal to the World 

for 

A Chapel in Every Home 



JOSEPH R. WILSON, LL.B. 



THE INTERNATIONAL PRINTING COMPANY 
PHILADELPHIA 



1922 



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Copyright 1922 
Joseph R. Wilson 



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DEDICATED 
TO MY FELLOW MAN 



AND 



ADDRESSED TO ALL WHO WORSHIP 
GOD. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED 
OR DENOMINATION 



All humanity is hungering for Religion. Let 
us make it a permanency in the household. 

"A place for prayer implies a time for it." 
Let us consecrate one room in our homes, no 
matter how small, to the worship of God. 

The home Sanctuary is not a luxury but a 
vital necessity. "The Church and the State 
both depend for vigor and stability upon the 
home." 

Every home should have a bath-room for 
the cleanliness of the body and a sanctuary 
for the cleanliness of the soul. 

"If Pagan Rome had domestic shrines for 
household gods, surely Christian America 
ought to have domestic shrines for the one 
God." 

There are few of us who have not longed, 
at some time, for the quiet room in our home 
in which to pray— in which to shut ourselves 
off from the world and be alone with God. 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 

Chapter I — The Message 7 

" II— Its Origin 37 

" III — Its Reception 49 



A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME 

Chapter i 



THE MESSAGE 

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Be- 
hold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will 
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God 
Himself shall be with them, and be their God." — Rev. 
xxi, 3. 

To All Who Worship God, Irrespective of Creed or Denomination 

The Godless home is the menace of the world today. 
Children are growing up in irreverence. God is daily 
and universally dishonored — in the home and out of it. 
Where will it end? 

Now comes this appeal to the world, to every man 
and woman, and for this and all the ages to come, for a 
Chapel or Sanctuary in every home — impracticable in 
millions of homes already crowded, practicable in mil- 
lions of homes which are not — possible in every home 
that may hereafter be built — and ultimately, a chapel 
in every home, the tribute of mankind to his Maker. 

The home is the foundation of the State. The home 
and family is the cornerstone on which rests national 
life and progress. Is this not so? Then any effectual 
means of strengthening and uplifting home life, of 
deepening the religious and moral convictions and pu- 
rity which are the very essence of home life, must have 
vital effect upon the national life of the human family 
as a whole. Hence this suggestion that in every home 
there should be a place for prayer or meditation; a 
family center for spiritual thought, communion and up- 
lift. 

The suggestion is not for an elaborate addition to 
the house, but to take one room, small or large, as cir- 
cumstances may permit, if only six feet by four, set it 

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aside, call in your minister and consecrate and dedicate 
it to Almighty God as the ''closet" for prayer, the 
chapel in the home, an Audience Chamber for the King 
of Kings. It would be a potent influence on the child 
life and a "witness" and a reminder to the parents and 
to every visitor. The larger the home the larger the 
chapel. We have enriched our homes from time im- 
memorial with provisions for every physical comfort 
and luxury, but where is there any visible evidence of 
religion in the modern home! The weakness of Faith in 
the present generation has its foundation in the decline 
of religion in the home, or to put it more forcibly, the 
absence of it. Children lack the parental spiritual 
foundation on which to build their Faith. There are so 
many other gods in the home today, and so little to sug- 
gest the presence of the One God. 

It is timely that we should make provision for a 
sanctuary for prayer in every home throughout the 
land, and by this means strive to build a new spiritual 
foundation for the world in the home, in the life of the 
child, by the gradual introduction of the ' ' consecrated 
room," so that there shall ultimately be a chapel in 
every home, of the rich and the poor. 

Eeligion will be on a surer foundation, beginning 
with earliest consciousness. Then the nations will be 
more God-fearing, for the children will grow into men 
and women, and the sanctity of the home will be re- 
flected in their lives and in all their dealings with their 
fellow-man. 

This cannot be accomplished by any one denomina- 
tion any more than it can by one individual ; it is a work 
of labor and love, nay more, it is a duty for us all. The 
chapel in the home will have its enemies ; it will be called 
" impracticable," and its path will be thorny, but all 
must admit that "the things of God must be first or we 
perish." 

There is nothing new in the thought of a chapel in 
the home. In the days of the Apostle Paul he personally 



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recorded that there were churches in the homes of 
Nymphas, Priscilla and Aquila, and Apphia. Pagan 
Rome had household temples for her idol gods. What 
has Christian America in her homes for the Only Liv- 
ing God? In many homes you could not find a Bible. 
We expect everything — health, happiness, riches and 
honors — but we give nothing. Modern religion is more 
of a Sabbath observance than a recognized daily need. 
There is little or nothing in our homes, or home life, to 
remind us of our God. Family prayers are a thing of 
the past. Grace at meal time is a rarity. There is dust 
on the family Bible. 

The writer hurls this axe at the root of the decay 
of religion throughout the world — at the Godless 
homes. We all recognize the menace of the Godless 
home — we rail at it, are continually calling attention to 
it, say what will happen if something is not done — but 
what we require today is a remedy. 

No pretense is made that this is an effectual rem- 
edy, but it is a message born from earnest prayer, and 
with God's assistance it will help. It is at least some- 
thing, and "worthy of the consideration of us all." 

Already the message of "A Chapel in Every 
Home''' has been fervently and eloquently endorsed by 
three Cardinals, the Primates of the Anglican Church 
in Scotland, Ireland, Canada, India and Ceylon, the 
West Indies,' and the Metropolitans of Australia and 
South Africa; three Archbishops, and one hundred and 
twenty-one Bishops of the United States and Great 
Britain, the presidents of twenty-five universities, col- 
leges and seminaries in the United States, leading 
clergymen of the foremost denominations, and distin- 
guished laymen whose names are household words. 

It has made more than an impression, it has taken 
a strong hold of their convictions. What they say on 
the subject indicates that not one of these leaders in 
religion, science, art, finance and industry, considers it 
impracticable of performance. In their weighty argu- 



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ments for its universal adoption (which appear in this 
book), while they recognize the difficulty of creating a 
sanctuary or chapel in many homes of today, they find 
a broad foundation to build on in the many homes 
throughout the world in which the vacant room or the 
" closet " is awaiting consecration. There are many 
homes, however, in which there is neither closet nor 
room for a closet, for they are crowded even beyond 
their capacity; but some day every home, small or 
large, will have its sanctuary, closet, chapel, church in 
the house — whatever name will give God the most Glory 
— dedicated to Him and the uplift of man; where the 
little children will learn from their parents respect and 
love for God the Father and, in the writer's belief, for 
J esus Christ the Saviour. Some day, a house without 
its sanctuary will be looked upon as an unfit habitation 
for a human being. 

No thought is advanced that the sanctuary in the 
home mil be a panacea for all human ills, but its in- 
fluence for good, visible and invisible, will exceed human 
comprehension. We can make this the heritage of fu- 
ture generations if we begin now with pure and unde- 
nted religion in the home — with the children, and we 
can make our own generation faithful servants of God. 

With the home resting on the family altar, a new 
religious life will come to the world; wholesome, un- 
wavering. The world will learn by experience to rely 
on prayer. We shall believe that there is more good in 
the world than evil; more truth than falsehood; more 
love, mercy and forgiveness in God, than condemnation 
and punishment. We shall realize that prayer is the 
only weapon with which the world can overcome evil. 

Among the earliest to recognize the full value of a 
chapel in every home was Bishop Paddock of Eastern 
Oregon. In writing on the subject he said: 

"The suggestion that in every home there 
should be a place for prayer and meditation; a 



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family center for spiritual thought, communion 
and uplift, is excellent; it would make us more 
loyal and loving in the family, it would increase 
the attendance and spiritual atmosphere in our 
churches ; it would help to bind together the whole 
world as children of the one Father, and would 
inspire us to make them conscientious members of 
one family in Christ. Then there would be no 
more selfishness, no more sin; hatred and hostili- 
ties would cease. We would love God and love 
our neighbor also, and the heavenly life would be- 
gin. May God show each one of us how we may 
hasten this day, and give us the will and the power 
to make our dreams real." 

When parents read the Bible as the Word of God, 
and expound it as such to their children, the decline of 
religion in the home will be stayed. Ignorance of the 
Bible to those who have eyesight and can read, is in- 
excusable, but to parents, it is a continuing offence 
against the Almighty God. 

Accentuating the great responsibility of parents, 
and to suggest a means whereby they may enrich their 
own Faith and lives by a closer daily walk with God 
and their influence on the child's life, comes the mes- 
sage of the chapel in the home, the place for prayer. 
Is it possible! Is it practicable? Will it accomplish 
its purpose! . 

From the viewpoint of the architect, it is both 
practicable and desirable. Dr. Warren Powers Laird, 
Dean of the Department of Architecture, University of 
Pennsylvania, adds this contribution : 

"To the architect, whose created works are 
not only the seat but the symbol of the life to be 
lived within them, the opportunity to incorporate 
a chapel in the home must bring peculiar satisfac- 
tion, for it would enable him to complete the prac- 
tical provisions for the various functions of the 
home life, now too universally confined to the 
physical and social sides." 



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A century ago the bathroom was impracticable. The 
art of building has not only eliminated the "impracti- 
cability, ' ' but the world now recognizes the necessity of 
the bathroom for cleanliness — and if a bathroom for the 
cleanliness of the body, then, why not a sanctuary in the 
home for the cleanliness of the soul, a sanctuary in the 
home of the workingman, as well as his employer? 

Difficulties bristle on every side ; in the hovels, 
crowded tenements, apartments, and in houses of many 
types, but in this era of building, what the past century 
has done for the cleansing of the body in the home, the 
next century will do for the cleansing of the soul. Archi- 
tects and builders will make provision for the sanc- 
tuary in the homes of the future, whether they be 
houses, apartments or tenements, and for the poor as 
well as the rich. 

"If Pagan Eome had domestic shrines for 
household gods, surely Christian America ought to 
have domestic shrines for the One God." 

It was in these immortal words that the Rev. 
George Dana Boardman, D. D., LL, D., pastor of the 
First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, and now long gath- 
ered with the saints, received the message of "A Chapel 
in Every Home" nearly twenty-four years ago. He 
read it aright. His soul immediately caught its in- 
spiration. The Christian world was behind the heathen 
in its attitude toward its God. Then he concluded by 
saying* : 

"Were the idea carried out, it would tend to 
make every home a sacred establishment ; it would 
make worship a daily privilege instead of a 
weekly; it would make worship more intensely per- 
sonal; it would help us obey our Master's precept 
of unostentation in worship — 'when thou prayest, 
enter into thy closet, , and having shut thy door, 
pray to thy Father who sees in secret. ' ' ' 



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Josiah H. Penniman, Provost, University of Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia, in writing on "A Chapel in 
Every Home, " nearly a quarter of a century later, said : 

"The thought that we should set apart a por- 
tion of each day for religious meditation and wor- 
ship is, of course, a generally accepted one, but 
your thought that there should not only be a time, 
but also a special place in every home, however 
great, or however humble, which should be set 
apart as a place of worship — is of importance, for 
it emphasizes the necessity for religion in the life, 
and in the home. Moreover, the fact that there 
is such a place in the house is likely to keep ever 
in the minds of its occupants, the necessity of hav- 
ing also a time for worship. 

"Of course, God may be worshipped accept- 
ably in any place, but, in a special place, the wor- 
ship is less apt to be interfered with by the en- 
croachments of worldly thought and worldly 
things. If your idea could be realized in every 
home where men profess and believe in and wor- 
ship God, the effect on those who do not make 
such professions would be incalculably great for 
good. 

"May your devotion to a great cause, the 
greatest of all causes, be rewarded by the setting 
apart of innumerable places of worship sacred to 
God whom we profess to serve. ' ' 

The words, "a chapel in every home," express the 
whole thought ; one room in every home disassociated 
with eating, sleeping, and the worldly things of this 
life, dedicated and consecrated to Almighty God as the 
sanctuary into which the members of the family may 
go together or alone, in times of health, in times of 
sickness, in times of happiness and prosperity, in times 
of desolation and adversity, and pray in secret to our 
Heavenly Father in His Holy Temple. 

Fellow-laborers of St. Paul were the first Chris- 
tians to have a church in their houses. 



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"Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, 
and Nymphas, and the church which is in his 
house. ' ' — Colossians 4 : v. 15. 

"Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in 
Christ Jesus : who have for my life laid down their 
own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but 
also all the churches of the Gentiles. 

"Likewise greet the church that is in their 
house." — Romans 16 :v. 3-5. 

"The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila 
and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with 
the church that is in their house." — I Corinthians 
16 : v. 19. 

' ' Paul, a prisoner of J esus Christ, and Timo- 
thy our brother, unto Philemon, our dearly be- 
loved and fellow-labourer, 

"And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus 
our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy 
house. ' ' : — Philemon 1 : v. 2. 

What a sincere tribute to the teaching of Jesus 
Christ would such a room be in any house. In His Ser- 
mon on the Mount He said : 

' ' But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 
closet; and when thou hast shut thy door, pray 
to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father 
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." — ■ 
Matthew 6 : v. 6. 

One of the pleas for a chapel in the home, which 
will find many sympathizers, is for the secret chamber 
for prayer. There are times when we cannot pray with 
satisfaction when others are around, not even the most 
loved members of our family. We want to be alone, 
to be able to utter our thoughts aloud, unheard by the 
world, to cry out in agony of spirit, or to offer up our 
thanks for His manifold blessings. We just want to en- 
ter that "closet," close the door, and be alone with 



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Him. How often do we hunger for this rare privilege 
of being alone with God in our own home? What a 
joy it will be when in every home, whether we be a 
guest or inmate, we can turn to this consecrated spot 
and fall on our knees in His presence and pour out our 
hearts. Communion such as this would produce a faith 
strong as "the rock of ages," a soul "as a watered 
garden." Prayer would lose all formality. We would 
talk to God as our Father in heaven. 

In the Sunday schools the little ones learn the his- 
tory of religion. The development of their minds is 
more or less intellectual. This is said with fervent ap- 
preciation of the great and good work Sunday schools 
are doing the world over, but the real, spiritual inspira- 
tion must come in the home, from the parents, and the 
environment of the child must reflect their reverential 
attitude toward God — and the acknowledgment of the 
supreme value of religion in their daily life. When we 
can show our children that we, the parents, love the 
Lord, our God, with all our hearts, and approach His 
holy altar with joy and gladness, with perfect Faith, 
then will the child go to Sunday School and Church 
with love and rejoicing, because it will feel that God is 
near it, always, and not making a weekly corrective 
visitation. The spiritual attitude of the child must be 
created in the home, and once imbued with the thought 
that God is the great invisible friend, everything taught 
thereafter in the Sunday schools about Him will fall on 
willing, attentive ears. Companionship with God must 
be the child's daily, loving thought, and no one can 
give a child this thought like its mother. Mother love 
is next to God love. Motherhood is the noblest institu- 
tion under heaven. 

The weekly half -hour lesson in the Sunday School 
can never take the place of religious instruction in the 
home. Parents who lean entirely on the Sunday School 
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laying' the foundation of the spiritual life of the child, 
must assume accountability for its weakness in the 
Faith. When parents realize their personal responsi- 
bility for the building- up of the Faith of the child, it 
will become a serious duty to them, calling for prayer 
for guidance and direction. In the home, parents by 
correct living, truth, and a reverential attitude toward 
God, could exercise a profound influence on the impres 
sionable mind of the child, and the sanctuary in the 
home would have a direct bearing on the result. The 
greatest joy that could come to a parent would be to 
feel that his or her child had grown up clean in mind, 
body and soul. 

"And thou shaft love the Lord thy God with 
all thine heart and with all thy soul, and with all 
thy might. 

"And these words, which I command thee this 
day, shall be in thine heart : 

"And thou, shalt teach them diligently unto thy 
children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest 
in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, 
and when thou liest down, and ivhen thou risest 
up." — Deuteronomy 6 : v. 5-7. 

"And thou shalt write them upon the door 
posts of thine house, and upon thy gates ; 

"That your days may be multiplied, and the 
days of your children. ' ' : — Deuteronomy 11 : v. 20- 
21. 

Moses so instructed the fathers of the children of 
Israel. 

, For many years the work of striving- to build up 
this thought in the world has been going on. The sanc- 
tuary or chapel in every home has been viewed from 
almost every angle by leaders of nearly all the great 
religious denominations and, like every permanent and 
lasting reformation, it moves slowly but surely toward 
world-wide adoption. 



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The first presentation of it was made on October 
30, 1898, in The New York Herald and The Philadelphia 
Press, with commendations by a few of the leading 
churchmen, including Bishops Potter, of New York; 
Neely, of Maine ; Coleman, of Delaware ; Scarborough, 
of New Jersey and Graves, of Laramie. In 1909 the 
first book on the subject was printed and distributed, 
and the following appears in it: 

"The words, 'a chapel in every home/ have 
been beckoning the writer on — in the daylight, in 
the darkness, on the street, in his office and in his 
home. At the last named place it has long existed 
as a reality, the most loved spot in the household, 
consecrated by the 'Church and used daily by the 
members of his family for their devotions. 'A 
chapel in every home* rings in his ears like the' 
voice of God calling him to deliver His message to 
His people, — in the homes of the rich, in the homes 
of the poor — a place for prayer, dedicated to 
Him." 

Much has been written and said on the subject since 
that time until it has become like the cool of the morn- 
ing, the fragrance of the garden, the scent of the woods, 
and the breezes of ocean. 

George H. Stuart, Jr., President, The Home Mis- 
sionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, and Vice- 
President of The Philadelphia Bible Society, pays it 
this tribute: 

"The message of 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
brings a new light to the world. It is a challenge 
to the faith of us all. A Christian household is the 
unit upon whose foundation is built the structure 
of an enduring national life, and the influence of 
this message shall be recorded upon the pages of 
history. The title, so well chosen by the author, 
clearly indicates the intimate connection between 
worship and family reverence for those objects 
which- transcend the grosser elements of our physi- 
cal being. 



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"If ever there was a time when the chapel 
in the home would throw its beacon light upon a 
world, sin-tossed and struggling with passions 
and doubts, surely it is now. It would shine out 
over the raging sea of wavering faith, and pilot 
us into the haven of prayer, to find sweet comfort 
and Divine guidance in the sanctuary of the Most 
High. Within its portals we could lay our weak- 
ness, our sorrow and our perplexity before our 
'God, in secret communion in our own home, day 
or night. The banner of our sanctuary would ever 
proclaim to our fellow-man our allegiance to the 
King of Kings and our brotherhood with human- 
ity. The thought is a noble one in its conception, 
and wholly practicable of execution. 

' ' May this chapel therefore be set up in every 
home throughout our land and in every land, that 
by its sacred influence, admission, and teachings, 
the youth and manhood of the world may find, en- 
joy, and transmit to succeeding generations, the 
blessings alike of true religion, and civil and po- 
litical liberty." 

Here we have the expression of one whose experi- 
ence is founded on many years of intimate associa- 
tion with the development of the spiritual atmosphere 
of living. 

Though churches may differ on creed and ritual, 
they have proved that they stand together to welcome 
anything that will tend to bring back religion to the 
home, the return of family prayer, the searching of 
the Scriptures for knowledge, grace at meals, and once 
again those sweet morning and evening prayers at 
our mother's knee, or beside our little beds. The home 
can again be made a powerful influence in the spiritual 
life of nations. What the home requires now is greater 
reverence for the things of God, the Bible and prayer; 
and the setting apart of a room to the Almighty God 
as a sanctuary for prayer, a holy spot in the house, 
would go a long way toward creating in the hearts of 



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children a proper appreciation of the reverential atti- 
tude of the parent toward God. The home would be 
more of a home ; it would have greater dignity — there 
would be a closer relation between parent and child. 

The present crowded tenements, apartments and 
houses in which there is no room, cannot last forever. 
New and modern structures for all classes are being 
built everywhere, affording the opportunity for owner 
and architect to combine investment and utility with 
work for the Master, for "where God has given a 
roof, there he expects an altar." 

In the book already referred to, printed in 1909, 
the writer also said : 

''My own little chapel is less than six feet square, 
yet so far it has been large enough for all our needs. 
When I moved into my present home some years ago, 
there it awaited me already built, at the head of the 
stairway on the second floor, with a colored glass win- 
dow in it, just as if I had designed it. It was probably 
intended for a sewing room or some other domestic 
purpose. I accepted the mute invitation and it at 
once became the chapel. "We fitted it up, had it conse- 
crated by our minister and have used it daily ever 
since. There are similar rooms in many homes all 
over the world waiting their consecration and dedica- 
tion to Almighty God. 

"The chapel in every home must come in time; 
and its effect will be to bring the presence of God into 
thousands of homes in which he would otherwise be 
unknown. The late Bishop Potter wrote me, 'a place 
for prayer implies a time for it,' and since he sent me 
that message I have learned its truth by experience, 
and can add that in addition to the place and the time, 
my own little chapel has proved an invitation so irre- 
sistible that I have found myself on my knees within 
its portals as many times outside the regular hours for 
prayer as within them. 

"A row of houses for workingmen will be built by 
some pioneer with a little chapel, six feet long and 
four wide, in each house ; with a colored glass window 
at the end to suggest an atmosphere of sanctity, the 



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sill of which may constitute the altar. Some may use 
it as a store room or for any other domestic purpose, 
but someone in the row will use the little chapel in the 
home as a place for prayer and others will copy. It 
may take hundreds of years to bring' man to a realiza- 
tion that he is behind the pagans in his attitude toward 
his God; but again I predict that the time will come 
when people, in looking for a house to rent or buy, 
will ask, 'What kind of a chapel has it!' and the chapel 
in every home will be sweet in the eyes of the Lord. 

"I cannot let this thought die — I could not if I 
would, for it must henceforth reverberate down the 
avenue of time, the closer relation of man with his 
Maker in his everyday rife, the invitation to God to 
dwell in the household, the chapel in the home — every 
home- — henceforth and forever. 

"When the hot blood of anger surges through the 
veins and the words which cut like a knife accompany 
the cruel blow; when husband and wife forget their 
vows made at the altar and in the presence of their 
little ones turn on each other like wild beasts — in the 
tumult and agony of human weakness and suffering, 
the open door of that little room sacred to God will 
utter 'peace.' Many a harsh word will be suppressed 
by a sight of that open door and the feeling of the in- 
visible presence of God within. Many a one bowed 
down in grief and tribulation will find comfort there — - 
kneeling alone with Him who will help if we will only 
let Him, and a great joy will be born to man from a 
closer personal communion with his God. 

"It has been born to me, and often on my knees 
in that sacred spot in my home I have prayed alone 
against despair and death, and though death prevailed 
and took my loved ones, I understood— it was all right 
■ — and peace came over my soul so sweet that I would, 
if I could, give it to all my fellow-men. And in the 
daily battle of life I have found my strength and in- 
spiration from a brief communion in the morning with 
my Heavenly Father. The day's toil has been light- 
ened and the shadows have dissolved before the bright 
confidence I carried out with me from that brief com- 
munion. 

"What has been the effect of the Chapel in the 
Home on the attendance of my family at Church? It 



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has been to intensify the desire for congregational 
worship, to create a joyous anticipation of the Sab- 
bath when the worship in the home expands into wor- 
ship with all the people in the greater houses of God. 

"If I could tell all that Chapel has done for me 
and my loved ones, there is not a man who believes in 
God who would allow another day to pass without 
planning one for his home. 

"Some of the great and good men, whose letters 
on this subject I have had reproduced for the benefit 
of the world, have passed beyond the Great Divide, 
but their words of encouragement and approval are 
already cemented into the foundation of this move- 
ment for all times. Others, whose letters are repro- 
duced, still live to help in the work of making the 
chapel in every home practical and universal. Let 
the Bishops, High Priests and Elders of the world, 
unite with the Clergy to bring the thought home to 
every congregation, and by this means it will have the 
spiritual force through human channels which will 
hasten that day which the Almighty God intends to 
come, when a habitation will be provided for Him in 
every home. 

"All humanity is hungering for religion. The 
hand of sickness, sorrow and death is leaning heavily 
on many households, and it is at such times that eyes 
are cast heavenward for comfort. If our eyes were as 
often cast heavenward in times of health and prosper- 
ity as they are in times of sickness, we would be bet- 
ter men and women, and there would be more charity 
in the world. If we had God in our hearts as much as 
in our heads, domestic devotion would not be dying 
out, but would be a loving daily communion with our 
Father in Heaven. Again, I refer to that sentence in 
Bishop Potter's letter, 'a place for prayer implies 
a time for it. ' Let us consecrate one room in our home, 
no matter how small, to the worship of God, and make 
provision hereafter for the chapel in every home. 

"Whoever reads these lines I invite to come for- 
ward and help me in this generation in carrying the 
thought and suggestion as far as we can. The chapel 
in the home will indeed 'deepen the religious life and 
be a safeguard against irreverence and wrong-doing 
in the family,' and become a tower of strength among 



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men in developing a loftier purity in domestic life, 
and greater love and charity toward all. 

"The message now speaks, not alone from the 
bearer, but with the eloquence of the world's greatest 
minds, and the suggestion of a chapel in every home 
will some day be the acclaimed demand of the civil- 
ized world for a 'closer walk with God.' " 

Conditions are no different in 1922 than they were 
in 1898 or 1909. The world is perhaps a little more 
uneasy, and not without reason. Devout believers are 
becoming alarmed, and are not only expecting some- 
thing to happen but praying for it. Anything that will 
sober the excited multitude pursuing the "mammon 
of unrighteousness." Should not this thought then 
at once appeal to all those who associate Faith with 
everything that is Eternal? Why, the happiness of 
knowing that you have taken a little room in your 
house, and consecrated it and made a chapel out of it, 
a tabernacle in the home to Jehovah, would commence 
with the adoption of the thought and never end. When 
our Blessed Saviour sees the lights burning on millions 
of altars erected to Him in millions of homes through- 
out the world, twinkling like the stars, there will be 
joy in Heaven. 

The seed of "A Chapel in Every Home" has been 
sown wherever the English language is spoken. It 
has always been a regret to the writer that language 
and expense prevented the sowing of the seed outside 
of the English speaking countries. The commenda- 
tions received from the foremost churchmen of many 
of the leading denominations, including the House of 
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States, nevertheless indicate that the universal 
adoption of the thought would bring about a great re- 
ligious uplift to the nations of the world. 

The leaders of all denominations, clergy and laity, 
are, therefore, urged to unite in this movement and to 



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proclaim the message of "A Chapel in Every Home" 
from the pulpit, aye, from the house-tops — for that is 
how it will ultimately be brought home to man. If 
man wants to argue against it then, he will have to 
argue with his God. All humanity is hungering for 
religion, and yearning for "a closer walk with God," 
and the chapel in the home is where that hunger and 
yearning can be satisfied. "Public worship in the 
church — important though it be — can never take the 
place of Family Prayers." May God grant, therefore, 
that the home chapel may become universal, and all 
the physical obstacles which delight the Prince of 
Darkness dissolve in the gradual evolution of every 
home with a tabernacle of the Lord. 

How wonderful it would be if every home had its 
audience chamber for the King of Kings. 

What has God done for man? Everything. He 
made him in His own image. He gave him the de- 
licious senses. He created the flowers in all their 
beauty to delight the eye of man and their perfume 
his sense of smell. He made the forests, plains and 
mountains, the green grass and the ocean, so that 
man should never weary. He gave him the sunshine, 
the moonlight and the starlight, the air and water, 
and everything in the manner of food and clothing. 
Above all, He gave him his wonderful mind and soul. 
How small a thing to ask of every man and woman 
who believes in God to dedicate to the Creator of 
Heaven and Earth, and to Jesus Christ our Blessed 
Saviour, a sanctuary in the home — in every home. 
You have heard the message. Hearken unto it in 
your hours of health and prosperity. These are but 
the things of this life, but a sanctuary for God in 
your home is a proclamation, an open acknowledg- 
ment to all the world — "I believe in God the Father, 
and in the life to come." 

What did Christ mean in his Sermon on the 
Mount, when he said: "But thou when thou pray est, 



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enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father 
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly?" 

The mind can wander over many kinds of closets, 
of all shapes and sizes, and typifying all ages, but 
out of all mass of stone, brick, mortar, and lath, 
emerges "A Place for Prayer." 

The idea of a chapel in every home, is not a pre- 
tentious chapel with a little house attached to it, but 
a home no matter how small, with one little room in 
it, dignified, consecrated and dedicated to the Al- 
mighty, God as the religious center around which the 
domestic life can revolve. We all know that there is 
no room in numberless houses for a chapel, no matter 
how small, for like unto the hovels, and the crowded 
tenements, humanity is so huddled together in them it 
scarcely has a space on which to sleep. We knew all these 
things before the message of a chapel in every home 
went forth, that physical conditions made its fulfill- 
ment literally impossible in the places already re- 
ferred to, but we also knew that, there were number- 
less houses throughout the world, with small families, 
in which one room could at once be converted into 
"the closet for prayer." 

The greatest opportunity will come however, in 
the new houses being constructed every year through- 
out the world, in which a little chapel could be in- 
cluded, and as the present unsuited houses decayed 
or were pulled down and others took their places, a 
chapel could be incorporated in them. If architects 
and builders will only take hold of this thought, they 
can help materially in making its practical adoption 
universal. Who will be the first architect to design 
a roiv of houses for the ivorhingman ivith a little 
chapel in every house in the row? 

The most used and plausible argument of the 
devil against a chapel in the home, is the following: 



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"We do not have to set apart a room in our home. 
God is everywhere and therefore, He is in every part 
of it. Every spot is sacred." 

This seems a reasonable argument in the face of 
our belief in the omnipresence of Almighty God, and 
if the omnipresence alone were in question, we could 
make no further argument. But let us take up the 
rest of it. Is every spot in every home always a jit 
habitation for the presence of God? Beginning with 
the attic and descending to the cellar, is every spot 
sacred? Would your neighbor say so? But the chapel 
in the home would always be sacred and presentable. 
It does not matter what part of the house you go to, 
it is associated ninety-nine per cent, with man. True, 
God is everywhere, but would it not be an act of 
reverence and supreme respect to provide the "holy 
spot" on which to stand in the exaltation of His 
worship ? 

What a powerful hold Satan has on many of us. 
The reward offered by him is not salvation and 
eternal life, but present earthly honors, pleasures and 
licentious enjoyments. This Prince of Darkness 
stands on guard at the door of every house to try to 
keep out the chapel, the tribute to Almighty God; not 
only stands at the door, but he is in every part of the 
house making his principal habitation in the minds of 
the inmates. Extraordinary as it may seem, there 
are some weak minded persons who recognize the 
power of the devil to such an extent that they are 
afraid to come out and fight him, or to challenge and 
defy him, lest he work some terrible calamity to them. 
Then there are persons who enjoy the devil and all 
his works so thoroughly that if they had to give up 
some of the pleasures and honors of this world and 
make sacrifices, they would rather defy God than the 
devil. 

If one believes in God, and is either building a 
new house or has a room in the house in which he is 



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living which could be converted into a sanctuary, 
what excuse could he really offer to God for denying 
Him a sanctuary in the home, other than imprac- 
ticability of performance. Responsibility for the ac- 
ceptance or rejection of this plea must, therefore, be 
with the individual who receives it. 

The most brilliant argument that man could con- 
ceive for the adoption of a chapel in every home, 
could not even approach the subject, for this is not 
a matter between man and man, but between man and 
God. That exalted character of this message is such 
that the world should take it up like a magnificent 
paean to the Almighty God, and make it the most won- 
derful and far reaching tribute ever offered to Him. 
A universal foundation has already been laid for it by 
the reverential and wise words of those who have 
recognized the value of the thought and cemented 
their approval and endorsement into its four corners. 
What should come now is world-wide momentum. 
Action. Who will help along these lines! — Reader — 
ivill you? 

There is something which few of us realize, and 
that is — the existence of two Bibles — the material and 
the Spiritual. The paper, ink, printing and binding is 
the one, and the word of God is the other. If your 
Faith was perfect you would know that there is a 
spiritual atmosphere around the Bible. We accept it 
as the word of God, but treat it the same as any other 
book — leave it anywhere and pile other books,, or any- 
thing else, on top of it. We see only one Bible and 
not the other. The writer's mother taught him the 
sacredness of God's Word when he was a little fellow, 
and during his life he can say that he has treated the 
Bible, the book itself, with veneration and respect and 
has never suffered, or allowed anything to be placed 
on it, other than a prayer book or hymn book. The 
children of Israel, thousands of years ago, made the 
Ark of the Covenant in which were placed the two 



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tablets of stone, and this Ark was kept in the "holy 
of holies," and now after all these centuries of Chris- 
tianity, martyrdom for Faith, and tremendous efforts 
made for the salvation of man, we take the Word of 
God and carelessly throw it anywhere. There is no 
holy of holies for it, and unfortunately in many homes 
if anyone asked where the Bible was, they would have 
to hunt the house over to find it. This is not con- 
sistent with belief in God, or belief that the Bible is 
the Word of God. There should be a sanctuary for 
this precious "Word" in every home where every 
member of the family Will know where to go to find 
the Bible. 

It will be found where it belongs, on the altar of 
the Most High God. You will touch it more rever- 
ently. You will read it more frequently, and you will 
learn truths that you never dreamed of ; truths that in 
sickness and health, in reverses and prosperity will 
lift you out of the flesh and ye shall walk with God 
himself. How often have you read the injunction, 
"Search ye the scriptures," 1 and how little searching 
we really do. There are thousands of people who have 
studied the poets and philosophers and who can quote 
freely from their writings — who never miss the "best 
fiction," but who have never read the Bible through. 
It is incredible that the Word of God should be the 
most widely circulated but the least read and the least 
understood book in the world today. If you ask the 
average person to take up his or her Bible and turn 
to almost any book in the Old or New Testament, 
excepting Genesis or the four gospels, you will notice 
that they have considerable difficulty in finding it, in- 
stead of being able to turn to it at once. Why? The 
answer is, unfamiliarity with the Bible. These are 
truths which man must also realize, because every 
moment he delays in taking up his Bible and studying 
it carefully, searching for the great truths waiting to 
be revealed to him, he is casting away opportunities 



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to draw closer to God, which may never come to him 
again. There should be a more intimate relation 
between man and the Bible. It is the book of his 
salvation and should mean more to him than a mere 
history. The Bible should be recognized for what it 
really is, the Word of God, and a consecrated spot pro- 
vided for it in every home. 

Religious revivals have educated the masses in 
great Bible truths, and have accomplished much, but 
they have failed to bring the world to God. They have 
brought millions to the throne of Grace, but there are 
countless millions to be saved. The regeneration of 
mankind must begin in the home, in every home, with 
the child. Then shall we reach the world. Every- 
thing must begin there and the home sanctuary is a 
foundation upon which the superstructure of a new 
God-loving people may be built, until we become par- 
takers of His divine nature. 

The condition of the world today is such that we 
need continuous and not spasmodic revivals. Though 
all humanity is hungering for religion, it is drifting 
away from it, and one of the principal reasons for it 
is ''modern religions skepticism." Faith is at its 
lowest ebb. New and up-to-date theology is the vogue. 
Human reason is supplanting Faith. Unless we return 
to Faith, what hope is there for the world? ''Abraham 
believed in God and it was counted unto him for 
righteousness." The call today is for leaders like 
Paul and the other apostles, for men who are ready 
to hazard their lives for Faith. 

"The Fool hath said in his heart: There is no 
God. They are corrupt ; they have done abomin- 
able works ; there is none that doeth good. 

"The Lord looked down from heaven upon the 
children of men, to see if there were any that did 
understand, and seek God. ' ' — Psalms 14 : v. 1-2. 



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And He is looking down on us today just the same 
as He did in the time of David. Man has a greater 
advantage today, for he has the Bible, both dispensa- 
tions, the old and the new, the prophecies and the 
fulfilments of many. In the time of David the test of 
Faith was greater than now, for Jesus had not come 
and His teachings and revealments were not known. 

The Bible is the only book in the world that can 
satisfy the soul as well as the mind. Those in afflic- 
tion and tribulation go to it, and drink deep of its 
waters, with a passionate longing for a touch of the 
Saviour's hand; but when the affliction is lifted and 
ease comes once more, many fall back. Though there 
are healthy believers as well as sick ones in the present 
state of religious indifference, the "intimate relation" 
seems only to come in the hour of trouble, and the 
sanctuary in the home is where to take it, the holy 
spot where not only the tears can be dried and the 
soul comforted, but where we can be born again as the 
faithful children of God. 

A noble army of martyrs gave up their lives for 
the teachings of Christ. Contrast with them those 
who today either argue against the Bible and its teach- 
ings, or who neither argue against nor follow. A 
pathetic figure in the world is the disbeliever, but the 
real abomination is the believer who wilfully and de- 
liberately shows disrespect to his God, no matter how 
he does it. That man is more dangerous than the dis- 
believer. A disbeliever is like a leopard, known by his 
spots, but the other is a whitened sepulcher. The dis- 
believer only expects to become carrion when he dies, 
but the other expects salvation. Between the two the 
disbeliever is the more honorable body. 

The absence of religion in the home — in the teach- 
ings of the parent, is not overcome by the churches 
and Sunday Schools. Unless the foundation in the 
child is on the rock of parental faith, exemplified by 
life in the home, he is destined to become either a dis- 



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believer or an apathetic Christian. What would a 
chapel in the home mean in the life of a child. The 
home is not only the foundation of the State, but 
everything begins there — Mother love and God love. 
Every father is the priest of his house and every 
mother the priestess. 

If this appeal had been for a new kind of library, 
sleeping room or other material improvement for the 
mental or physical comfort of man, it would have been 
exploited by the press, talked of by the world, and 
adopted generally long ago. The years have gone 
by and it is still knocking at the door of the world. 
Who will open it? 

This message came like the morning star, pure 
and serene, and the bearer's eyes are cast upward to 
his Maker, and not on mankind, as he writes it. He is 
seeking guidance and direction, so that the message 
will sink into the heart of man, that he may enjoy all 
the good, ennobling, and uplifting influence which it 
offers. Hear what the Word of God has to say on the 
chapel in the home : 

"The Lord is my strength and song, and He 
is become my salvation : He is my God and I will 
prepare Him an habitation; my father's God, and 
I will exalt Him. ' ' — Exodus 15 : v. 2. 

"And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of 
priests, and an holy nation." — Exodus 19: v. 6. 

"Thus saith the Lord, The Heaven is my 
throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is 
the house that ye build unto me? And where is 
the place of my rest?" — Isaiah 66: v. 1. 

"A glorious high throne from the beginning 
is the place of our sanctuary." — Jeremiah 17: 
v. 12. 

"As David sware unto the Lord 'Surely I 
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go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine 
eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out 
a place for the Lord, an habitation for the Mighty 
God of Jacob.' "—Psalms 132: v. 2-5. 

"For the palace is not for man, but for the 
Lord God." — 1 Chronicles 29: v. 1. 

"That thine eyes may be open toward this 
house night and day, even toward the place of 
which thou hast said, My name shall be there: 
that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which 
thy servant shall make toward this place. 

"And hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; 
and when thou hearest, forgive." — 1 Kings 8: 
v. 29-30. 

"Now it came to pass, as David sat in his 
house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, 
Lo, I dwell in a. house of cedars, but the ark of the 
covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains." 
— 1 Chronicles 17: v. 1. 

"0 Lord our God, all this store that we have 
prepared to build thee an house for thine holy 
name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own." 
— 1 Chronicles 11 : v. 16. 

"Thus salth the Lord God: Although I have 
cast them afar off among the heathen, and al- 
though I have scattered them among the countries, 
yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the 
countries where they shall come." — Ezekiel 11 : 
v. 16. 

' ' My tabernacle also shall be with them ; yea, 
I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

' ' And the heathen shall know that I the Lord 
do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in 
the midst of them for evermore."— Ezekiel 37 : 
v. 27-28. 

- "Woe unto them that join house to house, 
that lay field to field, till there be no place, that 



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they may be placed alone in the midst of the 
earth ! 

''In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a 
truth many houses shall be desolate, even great 
and fair, without inhabitant. ' ' — Isaiah 4 : v. 8-9. 

"And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle 
shall be in peace ; and thou shalt visit thy habita- 
tion, and shalt not sin." — Job 5: v. 24. 

"For in the time of trouble he shall hide me 
in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle 
shall he hide me ; he shall set me up upon a rock. ' ' 
< — Psalms 27 : v. 5. 

"Holiness becometh thine house, 0 Lord, for- 
ever. ' ' — Psalms 93 : v. 5. 

"Because of the house of the Lord our God 
I will seek thy good." — Psalms 122: v. 9. 

"Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of 
the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the 
Lord. 

"Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and 
bless the Lord." — Psalms 134: v. 1-2. 

"Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanc- 
tuary: praise him in the firmament of his power." 
— Psalms 150: v. 1. 

"But continue thou in the things thou hast 
learned and hast been assured of, knowing of 
whom thou hast learned them; And that from a 
child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which 
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through 
faith which is in Jesus Christ. " — II Timothy 3: 
v. 14-15. 



Visions of the abandonment of all pleasures, joy 
and gladness, will be conjured up by the Prince of 
Darkness, in order to set man against the chapel in 
the home. He will cause the human mind to picture 
long, solemn-faced heads of families, whose very pres- 



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ence is calculated to crush all the joy and sunshine 
out of young life. This powerful Prince of Darkness, 
who exercises such a strong' influence over the weak, 
is a master in suggesting- to the human mind the 
horror and desolation of being good. Defy this power 
and praise the Lord. If you want sparkling, radiant 
goy and happiness in your home, consecrate a little 
chapel in it. Sing, be glad, and feast as much as ye 
ever did, but there will be a place for a prayer and a 
time for it. The time is approaching when a house 
without a sanctuary will be no better than a stable, 
and a house with a sanctuary, though only one story 
high, will be greater than the palace without one. You 
have read what the Scriptures say about the habita- 
tion for Almighty God. It is not a question of "How 
can we deny it, but how quickly we can enter into our 
own sanctuary and weep over our neglect? " 

Then what are those people going to do who 
have absolutely no room for a chapel or sanctuary in 
their homes'? Are they to be condemned? That has 
already been answered. Physical impossibility is a 
barrier which time and circumstances alone can re- 
move, and until that time, if they believe, their sanc- 
tuary is in their heart. 

Custom has made religion too much of a Sabbath 
observance and not enough of a daily one, and even 
then it is a real effort for some people to go to church. 
If they can get out of it by any reasonable means, 
satisfying to their conscience, they will do so. Some 
people look upon going to church as a plain duty and 
nothing more, and they fulfill it patiently and faith- 
fully. Such a condition of mind is not religion. Re- 
ligion is a worship of the Almighty God, a genuine 
pouring forth of the soul and heart in supplication for 
ourselves and for others, but it must spring from the 
soul with spontaneity and Faith, and that sense of 
duty referred to must be as far away as the poles. 
Often the human heart is filled with agony and wants 



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some place where it can pour it forth; and what a 
help is the "sanctuary" in the home in such a moment. 
The very word sanctuary is a haven in itself, into 
which we can take our ship in the storms of life, and 
there under the lee, protected from the hurricane and 
the mighty sea, we can take on a new Pilot — Jesus of 
Nazareth — and place our ship in His hands. He 
stilled the waters of Galilee and He can still the 
troubled waters of our soul. 

The human desire is to pray in secret, and there- 
fore a little chapel to steal into and fall on one's 
knees and open our hearts, is a joy that must ulti- 
mately be carried into every home. The progress will 
be slow until the world awakens some morning to the 
real value of this blessed thought. When that time 
comes meetings and conventions will be held, and the 
mighty men will rise up and speak for its adoption 
with the eloquence of David. No longer will there 
be one solitary human being searching his heart and 
soul for words to try to give to the world the message. 
So great has the message always appeared to him 
that he would write it in great letters across the sky, 
"Let there be a Chapel in Every Home," so that all 
men, women and children every time they looked up- 
ward would see it. 

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of 
wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these 
things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 

"For nation shall rise against nation, and 
kingdom against kingdom : and there shall be fam- 
ines, and pestilence, and earthquakes in divers 
places. 

"All these are the beginnings of sorrows. 

' ' Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, 
and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all 
nations for my name's sake. 

"And many false prophets shall rise, and 
shall deceive many. 



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"And because iniquity shall abound, the love 
of many shall wax cold. 

"But he that shall endure unto the end, the 
same shall be saved. 

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be 
preached in all the world for a witness unto all 
nations; and then shall the end come. 

"When ye therefore shall see the abomina- 
tion of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, the 
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, 
let him understand)." — Matthew 24: v. 6-15. 

"Stand in the holy place!" Jesus spake these 
words, and if the end came today, what holy place 
would we stand in? If all the churches were filled to 
their capacity they would not hold one-tenth of us. 
But with a sanctuary in every home, we could stand 
in the holy place and await the will of Almighty God. 

The chapel in the home is not a luxury; it is a 
necessity. It belongs in the home of the lowly as well 
as the mighty; in every home. To architects then, this 
appeal is presented, to take the initiative, when called 
upon to make drawings for a home of any kind, and to 
include the chapel. The larger the home, the larger 
the chapel, but a chapel in every home. 

The fires of the thought of "A Chapel in Every 
Home" have been smouldering for a long time. Soon 
they will burst into a conflagration of adoption which 
will sweep the world ; not for the aesthetic addition of 
bricks, mortar and plaster to our dwellings, but for 
the holy place in which we can stand when the last 
trumpet shall sound, the holy place, God's sanctuary. 

The night is coming. Let us not delay in accept- 
ing the opportunity to participate in this glorious 
movement for the making of a better world; a new 
influence on child life, which shall make him a better 
man ; a new personal bond between ourselves and our 
Creator, and a universal recognition of the necessity 
of "a closer walk with God" in our daily life. 



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Let every man who believes extend an invitation 
to the Father to come and dwell with him and his 
household by preparing for Him a habitation. 

Start not and say "My home is too small, every 
room is occupied." Accept the thought in your 
hearts, the rest will come. God will take care of those 
who have it only in the heart, and would do if they 
could. 

The solution of the world's unrest can only, and 
eventually must come, through religion. There are 
many nationalities but only one God. The various 
conceptions of His powers and limitations issuing out 
of the different creeds and denominations will be 
merged through Faith into one belief when the peace 
of God, which passeth all understanding shall over- 
spread the world, and capital and labor work together 
forever in harmony. The foundation of the unity of 
all religions is in the home, and the "holy place" in 
the house will be the preparation for it. 

Then let us adopt as one people and for all time the 
obligation to Almighty God to set apart wherever pos- 
sible in every dwelling now erected, and to include in 
every dwelling, whether it be house, tenement, apart- 
ment or institution, hereafter erected, and wheresoever 
located, one room, small or large, as circumstances may 
permit, disassociated with the worldly things of this 
life, and specially dedicated and consecrated to Him as 
"the Chapel in the Home." 



Chapter ii. 



its origin 

The presentation of the suggestion of "A Chapel 
in Every Home" has been referred to repeatedly by 
the writer as a "message" to humanity, implying a 
Divine origin. These are the facts surrounding its 
inception : 

As a young man he deeply regretted the limita- 
tions of his ability to help his fellow man. He could 
give him personal service, pray with him and hope for 
him, but little else. Sickness and unhappiness seemed 
to surround him on all sides, and as he grow nearer 
and closer to his Maker he commenced to pray that 
God would make him His agent to help humanity. He 
had no idea what way He could or would use him, but 
for ten years, night and morning, he made the same 
earnest plea to the Almighty God to make him His 
agent. He knew no better word than that, and he used 
it every time he prayed. The months and years passed 
but he never felt discouraged. He kept on offering 
himself and pleading for the world, and lo ! after years 
of supplication, God answered his prayer. One blessed 
Sabbath morning He made him the bearer of this 
message to all the world, "Let there be a Chapel in 
Every Home." 

It was so exalting that he could scarcely believe 
that God had selected him to give this message to 
humanity. It was the most direct and marvelous 
answer to prayer. 

What a wonderful Sabbath morn that was. "A 
Chapel in Every Home ! " He felt like going on to the 
street and shouting out the message to the world, with 
a feeling that it would be transmitted instantaneously 
to every part of it. 

He had the message. How should he deliver it? 
The five words told the whole story. There was so 

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little to write about that it would not make up a book. 
The first thing he did, however, was to reduce the 
elaborating thoughts as they came to him, to writing, 
and after he had completed the manuscript he had it 
set up in type and sent it to every member of the 
House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church; 
in the United States, who as far as the message was 
concerned, were opportunely attending the General 
Conference in Washington, D. C. This was in 1898. 
At the same time he sent a copy to the Archbishops 
and Bishops of the Anglican Church in Great Britain, 
also to several well known ministers of different de- 
nominations in the United States. The harvest was 
small but rich. About five per cent, of the House of 
Bishops acknowledged it and about two per cent, of 
the Anglican Bishops, but their responses were of such 
a character as to indicate that the thought of "A 
Chapel in Every Home" was something that the world 
was waiting for. 

The most responsive acknowledgment came from 
the late George Dana Boardman, D. D., LL. D., for 
thirty years pastor of the First Baptist Church in 
Philadelphia, which has already been quoted. His 
imperishable words gave the bearer of this message 
courage and happiness. He now had the message and 
comments on it by distinguished churchmen. The next 
thing was to publish it. He took it to one of the fore- 
most newspapers in Philadelphia, filled with exalta- 
tion over what he was offering. The City Editor, 
whom he knew personally, read it through carefully, 
and handed it back to him with the comment : 

"It has no news value; we cannot use it." 

The same day he called on the Editor of another 
large daily paper and he showed immediate interest. 

"What do you want for the article?" he 
asked. 



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"Its publication," was the reply. 

"Very well," lie said, "we will give it half 
a page and illustrate it. It will come out in two 
weeks," and it did. 

The writer then went over to New York and called 
on the City Editor of The New York Herald. He was 
kind but skeptical — not of the value of the thought — 
but of the world. He read the article and also the 
original comments from the Bishops and other church- 
men. Finally he agreed to publish it with its endorse- 
ments, and simultaneously, on the thirtieth day of 
October, 1898, the message of "A Chapel in Every 
Home" went out to the world through The New York 
Herald and The Philadelphia Press. The writer ex- 
pected to see the newspapers around the globe take 
up the thought and from that time on people every- 
where begin to make plans for chapels in their homes, 
but the articles in the Herald and Press were the 
Alpha and Omega. It was a painful surprise. The 
message had been published, however, with the views 
on it by Bishops and other churchmen, and he bought 
a large number of both papers for distribution. 

The article published in The Philadelphia Press 
and The New York Herald follows: 

"A CHAPEL IN EVERY HOME." 
The New York Herald and Philadelphia Press, October 30th, 1898. 

"A religious atmosphere is so essential to a true 
home that it is strange the thought of incorporating a 
small chapel in every house has not presented itself 
before this to the Christian world. 

"In most American homes a room no larger than 
a bathroom would answer all requirements. Its sacred 
character could be imparted by a colored glass window, 
tiny altar, prie dieu and other religious emblems, in 
consonance with the views of individual worshippers. 

"It is quite probable that the existence of a spot 
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beneficial effect on the inmates, for there are times 
when, either in trouble or sickness, the heart longs for 
communion with God in some quiet chamber, from 
which the garish light of day has been excluded. 

"With a room specially created for this purpose, 
dedicated to worship and flooded with a tender at- 
mosphere, breathing of sacredness and tranquillity, a 
yearning would be satisfied and a custom established 
that would find many sympathizers. 

"The nearest approach to this is perhaps found 
in the homes of devout Christians who have dedicated 
a corner of their bedrooms to worship, and placed 
there the symbols of their faith, before which they 
kneel while offering up their orisons. 

"Up to the present day a chapel in connection 
with the households of private individuals has been 
confined exclusively to those born to high estate or to 
the wealthy. 

"In England and on the Continent, each royal 
residence has its chapel, in some instances dating back 
centuries, and many members of the nobility and 
landed gentry have copied the example and erected 
within their castle walls or on their large estates 
private chapels for the exclusive use of the members 
of the family and the tenantry. 

' ' The idea, which dates back to the medieval ages, 
has also impressed itself upon a small percentage of 
those who have amassed or inherited wealth, and there 
are instances, both in this country and abroad, where 
in the construction of the modern palatial residence, 
as much attention has been paid to the chapel as to 
the art gallery. 

' ' Colleges, universities, large private schools, hos- 
pitals and like institutions may be cited as a half-way 
step between the church and the private dwelling. 
They afford an illustration of the advantages derived 
from having a private place for worship in connection 
with each institution. The addition of a private 
chapel gives a fullness and completeness to the institu- 
tion, affording a religious influence essential to the 
realization of its noblest objects. 



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"But to go back to the idea of a chapel for every 
house, apart from its usefulness in providing a special 
chamber for spiritual communion, it would mean the 
introduction of an entirely new atmosphere in a house- 
hold, and distill a purity and dignity unobtainable 
from any other source. It could be made a little 
temple into which one could retire at any time and 
feel as far removed from the sordid interests of life 
as in the precincts of the church. 

"Further, it would be a universal acknowledg- 
ment of the supreme value of religion in the activities 
of every day existence. 

"With such a foundation to build on, one need 
not go very far out of his way to make the suggestion 
an accomplished fact and become the possessor of a 
private chapel of more or less beauty or simplicity for 
the use of his household. 

"As with every radical innovation of sweeping 
character, it is not only necessary to prove its value, 
but to find some vulnerable point of the armor of old- 
established custom and tradition through which the 
shaft of light can pass. The history of most innova- 
tions will show that they were first praised, then 
opposed and condemned and finally accepted by all. 

"In this instance the question resolves itself into 
one of appeal to those whose condition of enlighten- 
ment makes them amenable to that which would elevate 
and ennoble; in other words, bring religion closer to 
them by establishing a private place of worship in 
their house. 

"At first thought, it would almost appear that 
such a suggestion was intended to interfere with the 
prerogatives of the Church by inviting people to wor- 
ship at home instead of congregating together in 
larger edifices. 

"On the contrary, the suggestion of a chapel in 
every house is intended to strengthen the love for re- 
ligious worship by providing a link between home and 
church, in which the teachings of the Sabbath may be 
digested throughout the week days, and continually 
suggested by the presence of sacred symbols. 

"Add to this the absolute necessity of a place for 
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sickness, and for the early association of little lives 
with the sentiment and atmosphere of religion. 

"The reality of such surroundings could not fail 
to have an impressive effect, and it is reasonable to 
suppose that it would aid the young in concentrating 
their minds upon the prayer or hymn selected for the 
morning or evening devotional exercises. In this home 
chapel children could be trained from early infancy. 

"But the allurements of such a retreat are so 
manifold that the subject opens the way to a volume of 
reasons why a private chapel should exist in every 
household, whereas it is the intention of the writer to 
simply suggest such an innovation. 

"A practical beginning could be made in this 
direction in the many new building- operations now 
going on and being formulated. Plans could be altered 
so as to include a small chapel, and it is to be hoped 
the day is not far distant when house seekers will not 
be satisfied with any house unless one room, no matter 
how small, is specially constructed for private 
worship. ' ' 

With the aid of the different church almanacs he 
was enabled to find the addresses and to send copies 
of this article to every Bishop of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church and to every Archbishop and Bishop of 
the Roman Catholic Church in America, and also to 
the Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Church, 
with a personal letter. They would have been sent to 
leading churchmen in countries where the English 
language was not spoken, only the barrier of language 
confronted him, and the absence of all reference books 
of the names of the clergy in nations of other tongues 
than his own. There was also the additional question 
of expense. 

The responses from the proof of this article, and 
later from its publication, though few in number, were 
rich in encouragement, and are published chronologi- 
cally in the order received: 



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THE FIRST ENDORSERS. 

The Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New 
York: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' is admirable and 
most timely. We are losing the habit which was so 
powerful an element in the life of our fathers, of 
domestic devotion. A place for it implies a time for 
it, and a devotional atmosphere recalls, sobers and 
uplifts. In creating such an atmosphere, fit environ- 
ment is a most important factor. ' r 

The Right Rev. L eight on Coleman, Bishop of 
Delaware : 

"The subject upon which I have been asked to 
write — 'A Chapel in Every Home' — is one in regard 
to which I have always felt much interest and anxiety. 
I have always felt this great interest because the mat- 
ter is one of such vital concern to all the families of 
the land. Hardly anything, indeed, is more a matter 
of vital concern. It has to do with our most intimate 
relations with God, and with one another. Family 
prayer is one of the three great divisions of Prayer — 
Private, Family and Public. Negligence concerning it 
in any one of these parts is sure to entail great 
spiritual loss. 

"My anxiety arises from a belief that there is a 
widespread neglect of family worship. In this respect 
there has been, I fear, a marked decadence during the 
past few years. Anything, therefore, that will to any 
degree conduce to a better observance of this duty, as 
I esteem it, has my warmest sympathy. It is as be- 
lieving that the reservation in every home of an apart- 
ment, or the erection in connection with every home of 
a chapel, where family worship may be regularly held 
is a distinct gain in this direction that I would advo- 
cate such an arrangement with all my heart. Having 
at my residence at Wilmington such a chapel, I can 
write all the more emphatically of the many ad- 
vantages belonging to such a building. The setting 
apart of some particular edifice, or portion of edifice, 
for this purpose is a distinct addition to the spiritual 



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power of every household and to the religious educa- 
tion of every member thereof. 

"I am writing in the midst of exacting duties at 
our General Convention, and, therefore, can by no 
means do justice to this most important and interest- 
ing subject of whose public presentation I am very 
glad to hear." 

The Right Rev. John Scarborough, Bishop of New 
Jersey : 

" 'The Church in the House' is as old as the New 
Testament and is not unknown in this day. I know a 
good many homes that are now supplied with 'Ora- 
tories,' or places of prayer for the family. If all 
homes could have such a room set apart, it would be 
most desirable. But, of course, only the homes of the 
well-to-do could be so enriched. The homes of the 
poor are too often crowded and cramped. Where it 
is possible, it would be most desirable that the propo- 
sition of ' A Chapel in Every Home ' should be carried 
out." 

The Right Rev. H. A. Neely, Bishop of Maine : 

"I can think of no more wholesome provision for 
any Christian household than that of a Chapel in the 
house. Many considerations could be urged for it, of 
which I name but one, viz., that it would go far to 
assure the maintenance of family worship, which I 
fear is becoming sadly neglected among us." 

The Right Rev. Anson R. Graves, Bishop of 
Laramie : 

"The idea of a Chapel in each home is a beautiful 
and practical one, and I trust the article may result in 
starting a movement in that direction." 

The Right Rev. T. U. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read the 
article with great interest. I hope that you will con- 
tinue to write on the same lines, because I am per- 



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suaded that you will receive help to revive what is, I 
fear, an almost lost habit — that of family prayer." 

The Eight Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Bishop of 
Rhode Island: 

"I think it would be well, whenever it is prac- 
ticable, that there should be a room in every home 
especially consecrated to the purposes of private and 
family worship. I enclose an article which I have 
recently published which may serve to indicate my 
views in regard to the prevailing neglect of family 
devotions, and I am too feeble at present to say any- 
thing further: 

"A Household Without God. 
"By the Bishop of Rhode Island. 

"In this nominally Christian land there are very 
many households in which there is never any outward 
recognition of the existence of a God. In the morning 
the father goes off to his business or his pleasures, 
the children are sent to school, the mother goes on 
with her household duties, and at night they all retire 
to their rest — while in the meantime no word of 
Scripture has been read, no word of prayer spoken, 
no allusion made to the Gospel of Christ, or the fact 
of an eternal hereafter. When the Saviour was on 
earth, He consorted with all sorts and conditions of 
men and not unfrequently was the guest of those who 
had no sympathy with Him or His mission. If He 
should now return to us in person He might possibly 
find shelter under the roof of such a godless family as 
we have described. As the shadows of evening de- 
scend, we can imagine Him sitting in the midst of the 
household circle and saying* to them : ' My friends, you 
must know that I came into the world to die, in order 
that you might be saved from sin and death. Are you 
not conscious of anything wrong in your conduct which 
needs to be forgiven! Do you never feel the need of 
the great blessings which it is in my power to give 
you? You are very solicitous for the temporal wel- 
fare of your children — have you no care for their 
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the terrible temptations of such a world as this, with- 
out directing them to the only Being who can protect 
and shelter them from harm? Do you never think 
what awaits you in the future? All may be very 
bright and cheerful today, but sooner or later the 
clouds will gather and darkness enshroud your dwell- 
ing. There may be a vacant seat here, and one 
familiar voice which in the past has made your home 
so cheerful will be no more on earth. 

" 'Sooner or later the time will come when each 
of you will be called to go down into the dark valley 
and take that last dread journey which every one must 
travel alone, and unless you have Me for your friend, 
who is to welcome you when you reach the eternal 
world?' 

"It is possible that these are the terms in which 
the Saviour might address you; and if He is not in all 
your thoughts, if you never pray to Him, never con- 
fess your sins to Him, and never thank Him for His 
mercies, you are living without God in the world ; and 
this is to be without hope at the time when you will 
be in greatest need of help." 

The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, of Missouri, 
Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
in the United States : 

' ' The Church and the State both depend for vigor 
and stability upon the home. Anything, therefore, 
emphasizing the vital comiection between the 'Church' 
and the 'Home,' as a 'Chapel' does, is of value." 

The Bishop of Newcastle, England: 

"I think it would be an excellent thing if, wher- 
ever practicable, a small Oratory (call it what you 
will) could be set apart in every house for family wor- 
ship and where any member of the household might 
not be ashamed to pray. In England we have chapels 
attached to many large houses, and to residences of 
Bishops almost without exception, and I cannot say 
how much I value my own. ' ' 



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The Right Rev. "William F. Nichols, Bishop of 
California: 

' ' 1 A Chapel in Every Home. ' An American home 
may mean a mere dwelling. The inmates may have a 
common table, common night keys and up to a certain 
extent common bills. In such a home a chapel would 
probably be somewhat like family plate, kept in safety 
deposit vaults — for use only on great occasions. But 
in what I believe is the far more typical American 
home, where the hearth stone is cemented and sancti- 
fied by religion, a place set apart simple and sacredly, 
would tend to make some member of the family reso- 
lute, and that oftentimes is what is needed in a Chris- 
tian family— to sweeten the daily life with at least a 
few devotional words from the family as a whole, 
blessing the joys and soothing the trials as they come. 
With the provision of such a spot in the architecture 
for a Christian home there might well go the custom, 
which I have ever found welcomed in California, of 
having a special service of benediction about the time 
of the opening of a new Home."' 

The Right Rev. Gr. Worthington, Bishop of Neb- 
raska : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Over thirteen years 
ago I built my present residence in this city and ar- 
ranged for an Oratory which is sufficiently large, not 
only for the daily offices which are said there, but for 
special Episcopal sets as occasion requires. It has not 
alone been a great convenience to one in my position, 
but it has been in many ways a blessing to those who 
are members of my household. 

"I doubt not that a special place for prayer and 
praise, and consecrated by the daily use of the family 
under the direction of the head of the house, who is 
divinety appointed as Priest in the home, would bring 
a sweet benediction to those who desire communion 
with God, and believe in His promise that 'where two 
or three are met together in My name there am I in 
the midst of them.' " 



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The Bishop of Rochester, England : 

' ' The suggestion, is I think, excellent and not least 
in a country where house building is such an art as it 
is in yours. The value of a thing of the kind, will, of 
course, depend on the spirit in which it is done. To 
make a toy of it would be far worse than not to have it 
at all. But to give some visible expression to what 
should be the sacred center of every home life must, 
according to every principle, be right. In this con- 
nection, I was struck by the saying of a medical friend 
who told me he was conscious that he could give an 
opinion better and more effectively in his consulting 
room than elsewhere." 

The Right Rev. Leigh R. Brewer, Bishop of Mon- 
tana : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' is deserving of se- 
rious consideration. It would add to the sanctity of the 
home, deepen the religious life and be a safeguard 
against irreverence and wrong doing in the family." 

The Rev. George Dana Boardman, D. D., LL. D., 
for thirty years pastor of the First Baptist Church, of 
Philadelphia : 

"The idea of a 'Chapel for Every House' is ex- 
ceedingly happy. Were the idea carried out, it would 
tend to make every home a sacred establishment; it 
would make worship a daily privilege instead of a 
weekly; it would make worship more intensely per- 
sonal; it would help us to obey our Master's precept of 
unostentation in worship, 'When thou prayest, enter 
into thy closet, and having shut thy door, pray to thy 
Father who sees in secret.' If pagan Rome had 
domestic shrines for household gods, surely Christian 
America ought to have domestic shrines for the one 
God." 



Chapter hi. 



ITS RECEPTION 

Against these responses stood out the silence of 
the many, to whom the writer had sent the article and 
letter. What did they think! Why did they stand 
mute ? He had no way of knowing. It was not what 
he had expected. There were no outpourings of praise 
to Almighty God, for the great message. No generous 
offers to help from all denominations to propagate it 
throughout the world; no bonfires were lighted 
throughout the land to "wave the answer back to 
Heaven." The world went on as before. 

In vain the writer waited to hear from others; 
waited patiently and hopefully, shutting out of his 
heart the resentment which arose against the indiffer- 
ence of the ' ' many. Ttet In your patience possess ye your 
souls." — St. Luke 21: v. 19. He began to analyze his 
presentation for defects. The spirit of hopefulness 
which had carried him on became more subdued. Each 
day he asked God for guidance and direction, but no 
impelling influence stirred him to further publication 
other than by correspondence and discussions on the 
subject, which were of daily occurrence. Almost every 
one with whom he talked, took the negative side. They 
admitted the thought to be a beautiful idea, totally im- 
possible of performance, principally on account of 
physical conditions. Few, indeed, recognized it as an 
obligation to Almighty God, but dealt with it strictly 
as a physical proposition depending upon convenience. 
So usual was it for his hearers to begin immediately 
along these lines, that he invariably knew by the ex- 
pression of the face what was coming before there was 
a single utterance. Despite his dependence on Divine 
guidance, there were times when he became impatient 
and greatly troubled in spirit, particularly on the Sab- 

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bath day, when ministers with whom he had conversed, 
made no allusion to the subject in their sermons. He 
would sit in church with upturned eyes, waiting for 
some word to come from the pulpit ; but alas ! it never 
came. 

And so years rolled by, until 1909. This year all 
the exaltation which the writer felt in 1898, when the 
message first came to him, returned. The time had 
come to move forward. The period of inactivity was 
over. The world should receive the message again, 
this time in book form, reinforced by the words of 
those who wiser than their generation, had recognized 
its value to humanity. 

The plans for this book were long prayed over. 
The first decision of the writer was to publish it at his 
own expense for free distribution to the world, which 
happily he was able to do. It was a folio volume 9x12 
inches, bound in black cloth and stamped across the 
cover in gold, "A Chapel in Every Home." It con- 
tained the original presentation of the message and a 
new one addressed : "To All Who Worship God, Ir- 
respective of Creed or Denomination." In it were 
fac-simile reproductions of the letters which have al- 
ready appeared in this book, from the eleven Bishops 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States, two from Anglican Bishops, and the letter from 
the Rev. George Dana Boardman. 

On October 1, 1909', the book commenced its jour- 
ney to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and throughout 
the United States and Canada, to Cardinals, Arch- 
bishops, Bishops, prominent ministers of the leading 
denominations, college presidents and distinguished 
laymen, accompanied by the following letter: 

"Under separate cover there has been mailed 
to you a copy of a booklet entitled 'A Chapel in 
Every Home.' 

"The title really conveys the whole thought: 
It is a suggestion that in every home there should 



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be a place for prayer or meditation; a family cen- 
ter for spiritual thought, communion and uplift. 

"The home and family is the cornerstone on 
which rests national life and progress. Is it not 
so? Then any effectual means of strengthening 
and uplifting home lif e, of deepening the religious 
and moral convictions and purity which are the 
very essence of home life, must have vital effect 
upon the national life of the human family as a 
whole. 

"The writer believes that this phase of the 
thought that suggested ' A Chapel in Every Home ' 
may appeal to you, and asks that you give the 
booklet a perusal for the purpose of such com- 
ment, critical or commendatory, as your judgment 
may dictate. 

"There is nothing commercial in the publica- 
tion. It has been printed at the personal expense 
of the writer, for distribution among churchmen, 
public officials and publicists, for no other purpose 
than as a contribution to the general betterment 
of humanity." 

The harvest from this appeal was a bountiful one. 
Nothing could be more eloquent than the responses. 
In 1912 a supplement to "A Chapel in Every Home" 
was published, and in 1913 another little book entitled 
"An Appeal to All the World for a Chapel in Every 
Home," and the responses from all appeals are here- 
with given. They are not simply endorsements of the 
message — they are part of it, and must be read into its 
woof and fibre. They present new, inspired and en- 
riching arguments, glorifying God in their earnestness 
and striking wonderful chords of harmony in this mes- 
sage that shall ultimately bring to every home a bene- 
diction, which in the words of Bishop Spellmeyer will 
"soon bring the world to Christ, and Christ back to 
the world." 

Ordinarily the endorsements of a book follow its 
publication. "A Chapel in Every Home" is not a 



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book, however, in the ordinary sense of the word. It 
is a movement that has been going on for twenty-four 
years, and the opinions received in that time are not 
on its literary merit, or on the personal presentation of 
the views of the writer of this book, but on the value 
of the thought which he presents. The five words ex- 
press it in its entirety — "a chapel in every home." 



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HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE MESSAGE. 

The vision of the millennium itself seems to glow 
in the prophecies of what the realization of "A Chapel 
in Every Home" means to those who have written on 
the subject. Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Christian, 
Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Hebrew, Lutheran, 
Methodist, Presbyterian, Salvationist, college presi- 
dent, lawyer and captains of industry. Their views fol- 
low: 

His Eminence Cardinal O'Connell, Boston, Mass.: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I stand for the 
principle which you assert; that is, family prayer and 
the sacreclness of the home. Those who can put aside 
a small room as an oratory would soon realize in its 
possession what they have missed without it. I hope 
that the movement you are setting on foot will bring- 
good results." 

His Eminence Cardinal Falconio, Washington, D. 
C, Apostolic Delegate to the United States : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Your project has 
my warmest sympathy. Indeed there was a time when, 
I believe, there was not a single Christian family 
which did not have either a regular Chapel or a Cross 
— the sign of our Redemption — or a Sacred Image in 
some part of the house, apt to elevate the mind to the 
contemplation of God and His Divine Attributes, and 
to excite the heart to sentiments of love and veneration 
for God's boundless goodness and His Holy Laws. 
This pious custom is general even now amongst our 
Catholic people. Almost general also is the pious 
practice of Catholic families to kneel down in prayer 
either in common or separately at night before going 
to rest. May God grant that this religious practice 
may continue and become universal in every Christian 
family not only for the welfare of the home but also 
of the Nation of which the family is the natural basis." 



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His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, Arch- 
bishop of Baltimore, Md. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The Catholic 
Church has always recommended most strongly the 
beautiful practice of family prayer in common as one 
of the best means for the preservation of religion and 
purity in the home, and the faithful are always ex- 
horted to have in their home a Little oratory around 
which the family could gather to offer up their prayers 
to God." 

The Most Rev. William Alexander, Archbishop, 
Primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home,' I think that a special 
place for prayer and meditation is a great help in 
the spiritual life, a center for religious and moral 
strength and uplift in the home. ' ' 

The Most Rev. Walter John Forbes Robberds, 
Archbishop and Primus of all Scotland: 

"I can only say from personal experience that it 
is a real help to the religious life of the family and to 
one's own, to have an oratory or chapel in one's home." 

The Most Rev. John Baptist Crozier, Archbishop, 
Primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan. Transferred 
1911 from the Bishopric of Down, Connor and Drom- 
ore, as successor to the late Most Rev. William Alex- 
ander, D. D. : 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home' reached me at a time 
when I was greatly regretting the absence of a Private 
Chapel at the See House — Culloden. Your letter was 
the deciding weight in the scales and I hope, please 
God, to dedicate a private chapel for all time, which we 
have built at a cost of £300, generously provided for me 
and my successors in this Bishopric." 



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The Most Rev. Samuel Pritchard Matheson, Arch- 
bishop of Rupert's Land, Primate of all Canada: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' J" have read it with 
deep interest and after doing- so I feel that you are 
conferring a great benefit on the Christian world by 
its publication. To indicate to you what is my own 
conviction on the question I venture simply to say this : 
In a recent visit to Eastern Canada I was asked to ad- 
dress a mass meeting in connection with a conference 
for the deepening of spiritual life. I took as my theme 
what I considered to be ' the weak spot ' in our modern 
Christian life and effort, and I had no hesitation in 
putting down as the weak spot 'the want of religion in 
the Home life.' Religion in our day is transferred too 
much away from and not to the home. The sacred 
prerogative of father and mother in the training of the 
family is being abrogated and relegated to persons 
outside the home. The consequence is, that notwith- 
standing all the richness of modern Christian effort, 
notwithstanding the manifold activities of all the 
Churches, results are not encouraging and are certainly 
not commensurate with the efforts put forth. The weak- 
ness is, I believe, to be found at the springs from which 
the units which make up our communities flow, viz., 
the homes. Your endeavor is to improve conditions. 
In this respect, to make 'Bethels in our Christian 
homes.' May God bless this endeavor and crown it 
with the success it so richly deserves." 

The Most Rev. Reginald Stephen Copleston, 
Primate and Metropolitan of India and Ceylon: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' is a valuable sug- 
gestion, and well put, and I hope by God's blessings it 
will help many." 

The Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, Archbishop and 
Primate of West Indies: 

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in various ways to bring the suggestion to the notice 
of our Church people here, and I hope that these ef- 
forts will, at least in some cases, have a satisfactory 
result." 

The Most Rev. St. Clair George Alfred Donaldson, 
Archbishop of Brisbin and Metropolitan of Queens- 
land, Australia : 

' ' I am a, great believer in the practice of separat- 
ing a room in our private houses for the purpose of 
prayer and meditation. I am sure it makes for a 
deeper spiritual life and for that which is so difficult 
to maintain in these busy days." 

The Most Rev. John Ireland, Archbishop of St. 
Paul: 

' ' The idea, of a chapel in every home is beautiful — 
most Christian-like and worthy of the earnest atten 
tion of all those who have at heart the Christian life 
of the home. I have shown your booklet to several 
clergymen and they are all enchanted with it. As oc 
casion may offer I shall strive to recommend effectively 
the idea, of 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I hope that it 
will find many faithful adherents." 

The Most Rev. William Oldfield Burrows, Arch- 
bishop of Capetown and Metropolitan of South Africa : 

"I am desired by the Archbishop of Capetown to 
acknowledge receipt of your book 'A Chapel in Every 
Home/ to convey to you his sense of the value of the 
suggestion you advocate." 

The Most Rev. James Edward Quigley, Arch- 
bishop of Chicago : 

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am with you, heart and soul, in this very excellent mis- 
sion which you have taken upon yourself, and I will 
do all I can to encourage amongst our people, rich and 
poor, the revival of this ancient Catholic custom." 

The Most Rev. John J. Keane, Archbishop of 
Dubuque : 

"May God prosper your endeavor that there be a 
little sanctuary of prayer in every home. And may 
the spirit of prayer, thus fostered in all hearts, draw 
all souls closer to Jesus our Saviour and to our Father 
in Heaven." 



General William Booth, Founder and Commander- 
in-Chief of the Salvation Army, by Colonel Theodore 
Kitchens, International Headquarters, The Salvation 
Army, London, Eng. : 

"General Booth desires me to acknowledge his re- 
ceipt of your letter, together with booklet 'A Chapel 
in Every Home,' accompanying same. He is fully 
alive to the importance of the suggestion therein made, 
indeed, it has his warm approval." 

B'allington Booth, President of the Volunteers of 
America : 

"Permit me to add the testimony of my unfeigned 
faith in the power and influence of a Chapel in the 
home. For years I have been a strong advocate and 
a tenacious supporter of some chamber, however small, 
in which we can meet and receive the benediction of 
God and the inspiration of the Christ-spirit. The 
library is all right for the mind but we need a sanctum 
for the heart. 'The Chapel in the Home' will cultivate 
heartology, and that is more needed and momentous 
than brainology." 



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BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 

The Right Rev. William Andrew Leonard, Bishop 
of Ohio : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea involved, 
and the practical obligation of the same, is something 
very impressive, and ought to result in what your 
earnest soul desires, and I sincerely trust that this 
endeavor will be blest of the Heavenly Father." 

The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of 
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' is a most worthy 
contribution to the spiritual uplift of the Nation. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Lewis William Burton, Bishop of 
Lexington, Kentucky: 

c ' 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is ade- 
quately presented. I have long wished for something 
that might pass as a chapel in the Episcopal Residence. 
I feel the need of it more, now that my children have 
grown up. The ordinary living rooms of the house 
are associated with social pleasures and suggest or- 
dinarily no sacred association. You give us an ideal to 
cherish, viz., the possession of some place or spot 
sacred and associated with family and personal devo- 
tions and a trysting place with the Lord. 1 agree that 
family prayers are somewhat disused for lack of it; 
and perhaps the lack of it has made it easier for many 
families to give up home. Home has not meant much 
to them; and therefore they are ready to try to find 
a substitute for it in the apartment house, in the hotel 
or in the boarding-house. I earnestly pray that God 
may bless this effort for the promotion of household 
religion and the preservation of the highest types of 
Anglo-Saxon home life." 

The Right Rev. Frederic William Keator, Bishop 
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4 4 4 A Chapel in every Home. ' Surely, ' 'tis a con- 
summation devoutly to be wished,' as a source of 
power and uplift, as a center of rest and comfort which 
in these busy days of restless living are so lacking. 

"I pray that God's blessing may rest upon this 
effort to the end that He may be better known and 
more truly served everywhere." 

The Eight Rev. Charles Scadding, Bishop of Ore 

gon: 

44 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Truly it is 'a con- 
summation devoutly to be wished' that in every 
Christian home there might be some quiet, retired 
place for family prayer, and individual intercession 
and meditation; and I heartily commend your earnest 
efforts to bring this about. In the plan for a Bishop 's 
house which I hope soon to build there is a place for 
an Oratory where the daily offices can be said, and for 
special Episcopal acts as occasion may require, but 
for the present a corner of my study has to serve, and 
has become a veritable sanctuary. 

4 4 Praying that God may abundantly bless this pro- 
ject." 

The Right Rev. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas, 
Bishop of Wyoming : 

4 4 4 A Chapel in Every Home.' I know no more 
natural expression of the worldliness of this day and 
generation than the seeming abandonment of the pious 
habit and goodly practice of family prayers. I would 
to God that your efforts might serve to help restore 
this ancient and Christian habit in every home." 

The Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, Bishop of 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

44 Your sentiments about a place of prayer in every 
home are shared by very many more Christian people 
than find it practicable to carry their wishes into ef- 
fect. For myself, in common with many, if not all 
Bishops, I have and have always had an Oratory in my 



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house for family prayers and occasional family Com- 
munion Service. It is worth considering by Christian 
people that in the majority of professedly Christian 
homes there is absolutely no sign of our holy religion 
visible, while in a heathen country, every house has its 
shrine, and its household devotions." 

The Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, Bishop of 
Connecticut : 

"Certainly it would be a pleasure if there might 
be a place in every house, however small, which should 
be a sacred shrine. It would hallow the whole house 
and be a means toward consecrating the lives of those 
who went in and out." 

The Right Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, 
Bishop of Western Massachusetts : 

"What you say about 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
engages my sympathetic interest. My own oratory at 
Bishop 's House is indispensable and a place where un- 
ceasing comfort can be found. I wish, indeed, that 
there might be a fulfillment of your aspiration in every 
household of the land." 

The Right Rev. G. Mott Williams, Bishop of Mar- 
quette, Mich.: 

"I have long preached the oratory as one of the 
best means to spread the Church. Our scattered 
church families could often win many people to our 
worship by maintaining that worship with suitable sur- 
roundings at home. I am very much pleased with 'A 
Chapel in Every Home,' grateful for it." 

The Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Ten- 
nessee and President of the Executive Council of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States : 

"I quite agree with you that the life of the nation 
ultimately depends upon the life of the Family, and 
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reflected in the order and institutions of Government. 
Hoping that this appeal will meet with wide response. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Frederick Roger Graves, Bishop 
of Shanghai, China: 

"I wish that we could do more to bring about a 
better state of things in this regard here in China. In 
Chinese homes all life is lived in pubbc, and both the 
place and the opportunity for private prayer and 
family worship are too often lacking. We do all we 
can to promote religion in the family, and have done 
something to induce our people to move on the lines 
indicated in 'A Chapel in Every Home.' " 

The Right Rev. James Steptoe Johnson, Bishop 
of West Texas : 

" l A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is a 
beautiful one, and I wish it could be largely acted on ; 
nothing is more needed in our times than the revival 
of family religion, for it is the only true foundation 
of a religion of power.'-' 

The Right Rev. F. B. Howden, Bishop of New 
Mexico : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Anything that can 
bring to our people a forcible suggestion for promot- 
ing religious life in our homes must be welcomed by 
thoughtful and earnest men, and I am not surprised 
at the commendations your book has received from so 
many of the greatest leaders in this and other coun- 
tries. From a patriotic as well as a religious view- 
point the establishing of a family Shrine or altar is 
obviously of great importance, for on the character of 
our homes must depend the character of our country. 
What you are contending for is of course more of a 
restoration than an innovation, because the home 
'chapel' is one of the most ancient traditions of the 
human race, more ancient in fact than the church or 
the temple. Would that we Americans might lay hold 
of it in some such way as you advocate. Ever since I 
obtained -a 'Bishop's House' I have been planning a 



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chapel of this kind and have been conscious of the need 
of it. Needless to say your book has served to whet 
my desire for the achievement of my purpose. I con- 
gratulate you on your perseverance in your project and 
earnestly hope that your effort will bring forth results. 
'A Chapel in Every Home,' it is certainly an inspiring 
ideal. How wonderful it will be, if, under God, the 
ideal can some day be realized. " 

The Right Rev. C. P. Anderson, Bishop of 
Chicago : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a genuine 
pleasure to know that such a book has been put forth." 

The Right Rev. Henry B. Restarick, Bishop of 
Honolulu, T. H. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I believe that what 
this Nation wants above everything is Home religion. 
Modern life throws great difficulties in the way of 
gathering the family together for prayer, but I cer- 
tainly think that if there was a Chapel in Every Home 
that there would be an immense advance on the right 
line." 

The Right Rev. M. Edward Fawcett, Bishop of 
Quincy, Illinois: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Permit me to say 
how much I Avish that the idea could be carried into 
effect. It has long seemed very desirable to me for 
every Christian to have certain times and a certain 
place for daily prayer. Your plea, that the place could 
be a chapel properly arranged in the homes, is cer- 
tainly true. I have found that the most practical ad- 
vice I could give to those presented for Confirmation 
has been in harmony with the idea of your booklet. A 
certain place, and if possible a prepared place, for 
prayer, helps the soul to prepare for that place our 
Lord prepares for us." 



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The Eight Rev. Frederick Burgess, Bishop of 
Long Island: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I find myself in 
full accord with your ideas on the subject and wish it 
were practicable to have them carried out." 

The Right Rev. Reginald H. Weller, Bishop of 
Fond du Lac, 'Wisconsin : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I read it through 
when I untied the package and before I read my let- 
ters. May it aid, with God's blessings, in bringing a 
Chapel to every home, at least every Christian home, 
and may you see some of the results here and here- 
after." 

The Right Rev. Joseph M. Francis, Bishop of 
Indianapolis : 

"I have no shadow of doubt that a place set apart 
in every home as the place for prayer, and reserved 
for this purpose alone, would bring* an untold blessing 
to the homes of our land. Just as the open church 
draws many into it day by day for prayer and quiet 
meditation, so would this sacred spot in the home draw 
the members of the family and do much to restore the 
lost custom of Family Prayers. The thought is an ad- 
mirable and helpful one. ' ' 

The Right Rev. William Crane Gray, Bishop of 
Southern Florida : 

•'Most earnestly do I pray for a rapidly increas- 
ing restoration of the custom of 'Family Prayers/ I 
was very much impressed during both of my visits to 
England by the general custom which I found there of 
the head of every family being priest in his own house- 
hold and regularly conducting Family Prayer. If this 
movement for 'A Chapel in Every Home' can arouse 
people generally to the importance of this duty we shall 
certainly have reason to thank God for such a result." 



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The Right Rev. J. M. Kendrick, Bishop of Ari- 
zona : 

"Anything that will encourage Family Worship 
is valuable. If you consider my opinion as valuable at 
all, it is expressed veiy heartily and very strongly in 
favor of this movement." 

The Right Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, Bishop of Los 
Angeles, California: 

"I am quite sure that you are correct about the 
importance of a Chapel in every home, for when I 
built my present house (now about eleven years ago) 
much thought was given to the chapel which has been 
a center of influence in many ways ever since. In it 
we have our daily family prayer; very frequently at 
its altar is the Holy Communion celebrated; confirma- 
tions and marriages have been solemnized. I know 
the value and importance therefore of the effort which 
you are making." 

The Right Rev. Edward R. Atwill, Bishop of West 
Missouri : 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion ap- 
peals to me. I am sure that a room in the house con- 
secrated to the worship of Almighty God would sanc- 
tify the family and their dwelling place. We hear 
much nowadays of suggestion. Undoubtedly the ora- 
tory would silently suggest prayer and praise, and 
many who now neglect these privileges would be re- 
minded of them." 

The Right Rev. William Neilson McVickar, Bishop 
of Rhode Island : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It would be in- 
deed an inestimable addition to any house and its 
family life to have a chapel of its own for family and 
personal worship." 

The Right Rev. Ozi William Whitaker, Bishop of 
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"It has never been my experience to have a 
Chapel in my own house or to have a room set apart as 
a special place of prayer, but I have several times 
made visits to houses in which there are such a separate 
place and in every instance I have been impressed with 
a sense of propriety and benefit of such a holy place 
in every home. As I look back over my life I feel that 
if I had begun with such a reservation of some por- 
tion of my residence it would have had a good influence 
upon me and on the members of my family. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Charles C. Grafton, Bishop of 
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: 

"I hope 'A Chapel in Every Home' will increase 
this setting apart in houses of places for private and 
family prayer." 

The Right Rev. Arthur L. Williams, Bishop of 
Nebraska : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' emphasizes a sug- 
gestion which I have mentioned many times in my 
office and work Bishop, and points the way to a 
restoration of that almost forgotten duty and privilege, 
family worship." 

The Right Rev. Richard Henry Nelson, Bishop 
Coadjutor of Albany : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I appreciate the 
purpose which is obvious in your preparation of this, 
and consider that it is most timely." 

The Right Rev. Robert L. Paddock, Bishop of 
Eastern Oregon : 

"The suggestion that in every home there should 
be a place for prayer and meditation, a family center 
for spiritual thought, communion and uplift, is excel- 
lent; it would make us more loyal and loving in the 
family, it would increase the attendance and spiritual 
atmosphere in our churches; it would help to bind to- 



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gether the whole world as children of one Father, and 
would inspire us to make them conscientious members 
of one family in Christ. Then there would be no more 
selfishness, no more sin; hatred and hostilities would 
cease. We would love God and love our neighbor also 
and the heavenly life would begin. May God show 
each one of us how we may hasten this day, and give 
us the will and the power to make our dreams real. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Henry D. Robinson, Bishop of 
Nevada : 

"The idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is a good 
one. It would count much for humanity if it should 
be put into practice." 

The Right Rev. James Heartt Van Buren, Bishop 
of Porto Rico : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is ex- 
cellent. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed, Bishop of 
Florida : 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home.' Certainly the great 
want in this day is religion in the household. There 
was a time when family prayers were usual ; now they 
have become unusual. I believe the book is calculated 
to do a great deal of good. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Davis Sessums, Bishop of Louis- 
iana: 

"Surely, wherever a Chapel can be arranged in 
the home it would be a very real spiritual help to the 
family — calling to prayer and bringing a beautiful in- 
fluence for good." 

The Right Rev. Cleland K. Nelson, Bishop of At- 
lanta : 



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"The force which is most needed to bring back 
our people to their allegiance and to keep the children 
in the paths of truth and virtue is the family altar. To 
make this concrete is a great step toward establishing 
and confirming family worship. Your position is well 
reinforced by the wise words of some of our Most 
Reverend Fathers." 

The Right Rev. John McKim, Bishop of Tokyo, 
Japan : 

"If every home were a House of Prayer many of 
the problems would be solved that trouble society and 
the nations. If a man in his daily home life does his 
duty to God, he will find it much easier to do his duty 
toward his neighbor. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Junius M. Horner, Bishop of Ashe- 
ville, N. C. : 

"The suggestion is timely and will do much good." 

The Right Rev. James B. Funsten, Bishop of 
Idaho : 

"Undoubtedly it is a most important thing to do 
all in our power to kindle the fire of religion on the 
altar of the homes of our American people, else Chris- 
tianity itself will lose its hold upon our Nation." 

The Right Rev. Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of 
the Philippine Islands : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' commends itself to 
one who for upwards of twenty years has never been 
without an oratory in his home. I wish indeed we 
could arouse the heads of families in our country to a 
realization of their dignity as priests of their respec- 
tive households. When worship in the home is once 
again restored the churches will not stand in need of 
worshippers." 



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The Right Rev. Rogers Israel, Bishop of Erie, 
Pennsylvania : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' May I not wish you 
God-speed in the great work you have undertaken, and 
assure you of my hearty co-operation." 

The Right Rev. William Hall Moreland, Bishop of 
Sacramento, California : 

"The subject of a Chapel in Every Home appeals 
to me powerfully. I feel the need of a sacred corner 
or niche in the homes of us all. Write me again, count 
me as a true ally and co-worker. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Phillip M. Rhinelander, Bishop of 
Pennsylvania : 

' ' I feel very deeply with you that the nation rests 
on the home, and the home rests on home religion. I 
also recognize the force of the idea that a chapel in 
every home would go a long way towards preserving 
the ideal of family religion as well as the practice of 
it." 

The Right Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of Wash- 
ington, D. C. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion 
conveyed by the title and the reinforcement of it by 
the weighty letters of the prominent Bishops, makes it 
indeed a valuable Tractate. I am quite sure that there 
could be nothing better for family life and for the 
Church than family religion at the family altar." 

The Right Rev. J. Frederick Kinsman, Bishop of 
Delaware: 

"Thank you for the copy of 'A Chapel in Every 
Home,' with the theme of which I am in entire sym- 
pathy. I notice that in the letter sent you by Bishop 
Coleman he speaks of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd 



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in his house. I can add my own testimony to the 
value of it not only for use but also as a reminder and 
silent witness." 

The Eight Rev. Frederick F. Reese, Bishop of 
Georgia : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
much interest and trust that it may be effective in 
promoting a revival of the practice of family worship. 
I am sure that a decline in this practice is a very 
serious hindrance to religion and I think that every 
earnest Christian should labor and pray for this re- 
vival. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Charles Tyler Olmsted, Bishop of 
Central New York : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' In these days 
when so many 'Family Altars' seem to have fallen 
down, and the voice of prayer and praise is not heard 
in such households, it is certainly well to remind 
people of the duty which they neglect and of the 
privilege which they lose. I have an 'oratory' in my 
own home, and have often remarked that since we have 
separate rooms for eating, and talking, and sleeping, 
it is certainly quite as important to have, where it is 
possible, a room also for praying. Why not?" 

The Right Rev. William Montgomery Brown, 
Bishop of Arkansas: 

"With every good wish for 'A Chapel in Every 
Home.' " 

The Right Rev. Theodore Du Bose Bratton, Bishop 
of Mississippi: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The theme is per- 
tinent, and it is presented in a very striking way. It 
will help me in presenting the subject as I am con- 
stantly doing." 



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The Right Rev. John N. MoCormick, Bishop of 
Western Michigan : 

"Such a movement as 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
is certainly much needed and such results as those 
suggested are much to be desired." 

The Right Rev. Cameron Mann, Bishop of North 
Dakota : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Of course it 
presents an ideal which in many, perhaps most cases, 
would not be realized. But that is the case with all 
novel ideas. A Chapel room in a house cannot by 
itself create worship there. But it does suggest and 
invite to worship. And I can believe that if each de- 
cent tenement had its little chapel the tenants would 
treat the building more carefully and pay the rent 
more promptly ; also that the landlord would treat his 
tenants more generously. ' ' 

The Right Rev. William Lawrence, Bishop of 
Massachusetts : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Such publications 
toward development of the religion in the family life 
must be helpful, especially in these days, when the 
pressure of other interests is so heavy." 

The Right Rev. George W. Peterkin, Bishop of 
West Virginia : 

"The subject of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is cer- 
tainly very attractive. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, Bishop of 
Kyoto, Japan: 

"I beg to say that I am most heartily in favor of 
'A Chapel in Every Home' as I understand it and have 
for years tried to bring my people up to the ideal laid 
down by Canon Liddon on this subject. I have not 
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China and Japan have tried to educate my people up 
to the same standard. I may say that it is really 
much easier to do this with the Oriental people, with 
whom the idea of the 'Household Shrines' is such a 
strong one, than it is with many of our Western lands 
who seem to have drifted away from the conception 
almost entirely. " 

The Right Rev. William Paret, Bishop of Mary- 
land : 

"I am greatly pleased with 'A Chapel in Every 
Home ' and sincerely hope it will have excellent effect. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Nathaniel L. Thomas, Bishop of 
Wyoming : 

(Second letter.) 
"I have, in my house, now built in my study, a 
little chapel which is consecrated wholly to the purpose 
of worship. This is not a separate room, as I could 
not spare the space, but it is shut off from the room 
by a curtain. May God grant that your labors in this 
propaganda which you have undertaken may be uni- 
versally used." 

ENDORSEMENT BY HOUSE OF BISHOPS. 

The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States. 

The General Convention, St. Louis, Mo., 1916. 

The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, Presiding Bishop : 

"No better help to the Christian cause can come 
than the emphasizing of the value of home religion and 
worship. I shall take pleasure in presenting to the 
House of Bishops your petition for 'A Chapel in Every 
Home.' " 

The Right Rev. Wm. Hall Moreland, Bishop of 
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Commission on Home and Family Life, General Con 
vention, St. Louis, Mo., October 23, 1916 : 

"The General Convention has received with pro- 
found sympathy and approval your proposal with ref- 
erence to a Chapel in Every Home. It was referred to 
the Committee on Memorials, which reported it to the 
House of Bishops with unanimous commendation. It 
was also commended to the attention of the Committee 
on the Pastoral Letter. 

"A further Joint Commission on Home and 
Family Life has been created, consisting of five 
bishops, five presbyters and five laymen. Of this Com- 
mission the undersigned is Chairman. Be sure that 
your proposal will be earnestly considered by the Com- 
mission, and anything more bearing upon it will be 
entertained and welcomed if sent to my home address." 

The General Convention, House of Bishops, the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, St. 
Louis, Mo., 1916. 

Eeport of the Committee on Memorials and Peti- 
tions : 

An appeal has been received from Joseph R. Wil- 
son, Esq., Philadelphia, to the General Convention that 
it sanction and approve the idea of "A Chapel in 
Every Home," which is that there be set apart wher- 
ever possible, in every dwelling now erected, and that 
there be included in every dwelling hereafter erected, 
one room, small or large as circumstances may permit, 
specially dedicated to Almighty God as the religious 
center around which the domestic life shall revolve. 

The Committee offers the following resolution: 

Resolved: That this House is in hearty sympathy 
with the devout purpose of the petitioner; it realizes 
how sadly the practices of prayer and family worship 
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modern life. It recognizes the practical difficulties of 
securing privacy and seclusion for spiritual exercises 
amid present day conditions of apartments, tenements, 
flats and crowded living quarters. It would rejoice to 
see the idea of the petitioner carried out, and believes 
that it might be more frequently realized in the larger 
mansions and spacious residences erected or occupied 
by Christian people. This House therefore gives its 
warm endorsement to this appeal, especially so far as 
it applies to the deepening of the religious life of the 
home and the practice of Family Prayers, and com- 
mends the whole matter to the consideration of the 
Committee on Pastoral Letter. 

This report was referred to the Committee on Pas- 
toral Letter. 

Samuel Hart, 

Secretary. 

The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of Beth 
lehem, Pa. : 

''Nothing could be more important than for the 
Church to lay strongest emphasis on the valuable sug- 
gestion of 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The House of 
Bishops unanimously passed the enclosed resolution. 
I feel convinced that you will be greatly gratified to 
receive this Resolution on this project so vital to the 
spiritual welfare of God's people everywhere." 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL BISHOPS IN THE 
UNITED STATES. 

The Right Rev. Henry Spellmeyer, Bishop, M. E. 
Church, St. Louis, Mo. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' and a mid-week 
prayer service attended by the members of every 
family would soon bring the world to Christ, and 
Christ back to the world." 



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The Right Eev. John L. Nuelson, Bishop, M. E. 
Church, Omaha r Nebraska : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am very much 
impressed with the sentiments expressed therein." 

The Right Rev. Earl Cranston, Bishop, M. E. 
Church, Washington, D. C. : 

"Worship in every home, certainly. 'A Chapel 
in Every Home' where it is practical. Yes — giving 
that demand precedence over the music room or dan 
cing room." 

The Right Rev. J. W. Basford, Bishop, M. E. 
Church, Pekin, China : 

"If 'A Chapel in Every Home' shall result in the 
re-establishment of the family altar in American 
homes, it will prove a priceless contribution to Ameri- 
can civilization." 

The Right Rev. William F. McDowell, Bishop, M. 
E. Church, Chicago : 

1 1 1 am sure all who have any interest in the home 
and family life of the nation, and therefore in the na- 
tional life itself, must agree with the general idea and 
principle of 'A Chapel in Every Home.' " 

The Right Rev. William F. Anderson, Bishop, M. 
E. Church, Chattanooga, Tenn. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The amount of 
good that can be accomplished by this method is al- 
most incalculable. The home after all lies at the 
foundation of our progress, of both our commonwealth 
and the nation. ' ' 

The Right Rev. Luther B. Wilson, Resident Bishop, 
M. E. Church, Philadelphia: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I wish that it were 



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possible for every home to have such a place for prayer 
and meditation. The importance of family religion 
cannot be too strongiy stated. Hoping that this book- 
let may not only awaken thought but lead also to con- 
viction and appropriate action." 



HOW THE ANGLICAN BISHOPS THROUGHOUT 
THE WORLD RECEIVED THE MESSAGE. 

The Right Rev. and Hon. Edward Carr Glyn, 
Bishop of Peterborough, England: 

u 'A Chapel in Every Home.' There is no doubt 
that anything that can increase the Sanctity of the 
'Home' life must be a great advantage, and your pro- 
posal tends decidedly that way, and should therefore 
meet with encouragement." 

The Right Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop 
of Ripon, England: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It would be a very 
great thing if this should lead to a revival of family 
prayer in at least all Christian households." 

The Right Rev. John Nathaniel Quirk, Bishop Suf- 
fragan, of Sheffield, England: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' My assurances of 
the earnest hope I have that this effort may be blessed 
to the increase of private prayer, personal consecration 
and Religion in the Home." 

The Right Rev. John William Diggle, Bishop of 
Carlisle, England: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Wherever such a 
chapel is practicable it is beneficent, and I bebeve with 
you that it is far more generally practicable than is 
commonly supposed. Much of the prevalent decay of 
public worship is, I think, due to the neglect of con- 
stantly teaching from the pulpit the duty and value 
of family worship. ' ' 



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The Right Rev. George Nickson, Bishop of Jarrow, 
England : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is a use- 
ful one and its carrying out would produce a move- 
ment toward truer spiritual life in many a home." 

The Right Rev. George Rodney Eden, Bishop of 
Wakefield, England : 

"I hope 'A Chapel in Every Home' will be pro- 
ductive of a great deal of good." 

The Right Rev. S. E. Marsden, Assistant Bishop 
of Bristol, England : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I cordially agree 
that wherever practicable it is most desirable that 
there should be a room set apart for the purpose of 
family worship, and also for private prayer and 
meditation in every home." 

The Right Rev. Arthur Hamilton Baynes, Assist- 
ant Bishop of Southwell,, England : 

"I have perused 'A Chapel in Every Home' with 
much interest, and sympathize with its views." 

The Right Rev. John P. A. Bowers, Bishop Suf- 
ragan of Thetf ord, Norfolk, England : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I think the sug- 
gestion is admirable, and I will take any steps I can 
to further it in this part of the world." 

The Right Rev. John Wordsworth, Bishop of Sal- 
isbury, England: 

"The Bishop desires me to say that he is greatly 
interested in 'A Chapel in Every Home' and in the 
object at which it aims." 



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The Right Rev. W. H. Yeatman-Biggs, Bishop of 
Worcester : 

"I am directed by the Bishop of Worcester to 
thank you for your book 'A Chapel in Every Home.' 
The Bishop entirely agrees with you that the home and 
family life is the corner stone on which rests national 
life and progress." 

The Right Rev. Henry Lake Paget, Bishop Suf- 
ragan, Stepney, England: 

"The Bishop of Stepney asks me to write and 
thank you most warmly for your book, and to say that 
he thinks that some small room set apart for prayer 
would do much to deepen and brighten the spiritual 
life in the household." 

The Right Rev. Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson, 
Bishop of Gloucester, England: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion in 
it is well worthy of consideration and I should be glad 
to see it carried out as far as possible." 

The Right Rev. John Dowden, Bishop of Edin- 
burgh, Scotland: 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' With the idea that 
underlies it, I entirely concur; but for the very poor 
there is a practical impossibility. Long ago I have 
said, putting this matter on an obviously reasonable 
footing, 'In every home that can have a billiard room, 
there ought to be a chapel.' Of course one may go a 
little farther than that." 

The Right Rev. Rowland Ellis, Bishop of Aber- 
deen and Orkney: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' So great is the 
influence that the home life exercises upon the life of 
the nation that whatever tends to raise and elevate the 
home must prove a national blessing." 



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Bishop Ellis, of Aberdeen and Orkney, in an ad- 
dress before the Church Congress at Swansea in 1909, 
made an eloquent appeal for the sanctification of the 
family life. He said: 

"Personal religion, the spiritual life of the in- 
dividual — this, in its various aspects, has a very real 
place in our thoughts as Christians. The life of the 
Church, its growth and development — this, too, oc- 
cupies much of our attention. The life of the nation 
and that which makes for national well-being and na- 
tional greatness — this again comes continually before 
us in one form or another. It is right that we should 
dwell on these things, but do we dwell sufficiently on 
the life of the family"? Do we sufficiently consider that 
the foundation of the national life is the home, that it 
comes first in the order of time, and first in the order 
of importance; that the nation rises or sinks just in 
proportion as its families are pure or otherwise; that 
if you want to raise the nation and to purify the 
country you must first of all raise the family and 
purify the home? 

"The sanctification of family life, then, is a sub- 
ject that may well occupy the attention of this Con- 
gress. What do we mean by the sanctification of 
family life? We mean that the home should be a 
dwelling in which Christ abides by the power of the 
Holy Ghost the Sanctifier, in which the all-pervading 
presence of Christ makes its influence felt, in which 
all the members are united to Christ, and to each other 
in Christ, so that all the details of home life are hal- 
lowed by His consecrating touch, and the home be- 
comes the abode of happiness because the abode of 
holiness." 

The Right Rev. Charles Frederick D 'Arcy, Bishop 
of Ossory, Kilkenny, Ireland. Transferred 1911 to 
the Bishopric of Down, Connor and Dromore : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea set forth 
therein with so much clearness and earnestness is cer- 
tainly one which makes for spirituality and devotion. 
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lest family worship should be forgotten. Also I hold 
that the public worship of the church, important though 
it be, can never take the place of 'Family Prayers.' " 

The Eight Eev. William Arthur Holbech, Bishop 
of the Island of St. Helena: 

"The custom of Family Prayer is not so general 
now as formerly, and I hope ' A Chapel in Every Home ' 
may be effective in restoring the use of that very 
valuable act of devotion." 

The Eight Eev. Alfred Clifford, Bishop of Luck 
now, India: 

"I have a chapel in my own home, and wherever 
I may be in the future, hope to be able to devote a 
room to this purpose. ' ' 

The Eight Eev. Francis A. Gregory, Bishop of the 
Island of Mauritius: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I think it is im- 
possible not to sympathize fully with this endeavor 
though it is so easy to see the difficulties in the way 
of its realization. I cannot doubt that it will produce 
some effect and the mere fact of bringing the idea be- 
fore people's minds will be fruitful." 

The Eight Eev. John Francis Welsh, Bishop of 
Trinidad, W. I. : 

"I cordially join my brethren and other Bishops 
who have previously written, in approval of 'A Chapel 
in Every Home.' Everything that tends to sanctify 
and bless the Home and home life must inevitably re- 
act on the Civic and National life." 

The Eight Eev. William M. Cameron, Bishop Co- 
adjutor, of Capetown, Africa: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is an excellent 
idea, which, if carried out, would, I am sure, give a 
brighter spiritual tone and much spiritual strength 
and comfort to many a family." 



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The Eight Rev. William Willcox Perrin, Bishop of 
British Columbia: 

"May the distribution of 'A Chapel m Every 
Home' be a real help, and produce results. Personally 
I can testify to the great spiritual advantage it is to 
have a small Oratoiy in the home. It makes a dif- 
ference in the Family Prayers, and for private devo- 
tion it is indeed a blessing and aid to devotion. We 
value a short Service in the middle of the day which 
any visitors who happen to come to luncheon gladly 
attend/' 

The Right Rev. George Alfred Lefroy, Bishop of 
Lahore, Punjab, India: 

"I must unreservedly accept the position main- 
tained in 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have always 
had the advantage of a 'Chapel in the Home' myself, 
both during 20 years when I was a member of the 
Cambridge Mission at Delhi, and since I became a 
Bishop, and I know how invaluable an addition it is 
to the life of any home. I earnestly trust that the 
booklet may be widely read and produce much effect. ' ' 

The Right Rev. William Edmund Smith, Bishop 
of Lebombo, Africa: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' May I express the 
hope that you will not allow the matter to drop, for 
the modern disregard of domestic religion is a matter 
which ought to be seriously considered by all religious 
people. It is saddening to notice the increasing num- 
ber of homes where even grace at meals has been al- 
lowed to drop. A revolution of the character of your 
proposal cannot be accomplished without a great deal 
of hard work on the part of the few who are keen. I 
hope you may succeed in inspiring a considerable num- 
ber of lay-men to join you in the work." 

The Right Rev. Cecil Wilson, Bishop of Melanesia, 
New Zealand: 

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whatever that there should be in every home a place 
set apart for communion with God; a place where at 
any time one can be hidden in His tabernacle ; a sanc- 
tuary out of which we can see things as Clod sees them. 
There is nothing so helpful as a chapel in the home, 
and after reading what you and others have said on 
the subject, probably some who had thought it impos- 
sible to provide themselves with one, will fit up some 
room or cupboard for the purpose." 

The Right Rev. George Horsfall Frodsham, 
Bishop of North Queensland, Australia : 

"I welcome very heartily the idea of a chapel in 
each home where all the household, from the master 
to the maid servant, can go for prayer. Before I built 
a tiny wooden chapel outside, I set apart a room, as 
you did, in my house. Not one of us failed to value 
it." 

The Right Rev. Thomas Henry Armstrong, Bishop 
of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia : 

"It would be a blessing indeed if the idea of 'A 
Chapel in Every Home' could be carried out. I am 
sorry to say that in these days, prayer is too often 
neglected — both family and private. If some such 
idea as this could become general and a place be set 
apart for worship in every home, it would do much to 
remedy the evil." 

The Right Rev. Arthur Wellesley Pain, Bishop of 
Gippsland, Province of Victoria, Australia: 

"I most heartily agree that the home and the 
family is the cornerstone on which rests national life 
and progress. Anything that aims at strengthening 
and uplifting home life is worthy of our fullest sym- 
pathy. 'A Chapel in Every Home' seems to me well 
calculated to accomplish the important object it has 
in view. ' ' 

The Right Rev. John D. Langley, Bishop of Ben- 
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"The subject is one which I think has a most im- 
portant bearing on the future life of Christian people." 

The Bight Rev. Charles Oliver Mules, Bishop of 
Nelson, New Zealand : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It brings to mind 
and enforces a duty too frequently altogether neg- 
lected, especially in a young country, such as New Zea- 
land. To make the provision for its fulfillment, which 
is suggested by you, would not be too difficult for at 
least some persons, but hitherto I have only met with 
it in the homes of the clergy of my own Church. ' ' 

The Eight Rev. John Edward Mercer, Bishop of 
Tasmania : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea which is 
therein stressed is most valuable. Sincerely trusting 
that the effort may bear good fruit." 

The Right Rev. John Edward Mercer, Bishop of 
Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am sure it will 
do much good, and tend to home and family worship." 

The Right Rev. Moore R. Neylan, Bishop of Auck- 
land, New Zealand : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' If widely adopted 
is bound to bring blessing to individuals, and to na- 
tions. The very strongest bulwark to family life is 
family prayer." 

The Right Rev. George Thorneloe, Bishop of Al- 
goma, Ontario, Canada : 

' ' ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' If we could but in- 
duce our people to worship God at home they would 
be less inclined to neglect Him elsewhere. I trust that 
God may richly bless this effort." 



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The Right Rev. John Grisdale, Bishop of Qu'Ap- 
pelle, Canada : 

''There can be no doubt that the places in which 
family prayer is held become hallowed by many sweet 
memories. If there could be a special place in each 
home for this purpose, it would, I believe, be of great 
service. May God bless this effort." 

The Right Rev. William Cyprian Pinkham, Bishop 
of Calgary, Canada: 

"The suggestion conveyed in the title 'A Chapel 
in Every Home' is admirable, and I shall very gladly 
do anything in my power to disseminate the idea and 
urge that in every home, wherever practicable, there 
should be a place for prayer and meditation." 

The Right Rev. William Lennox Mills, Bishop of 
Ontario, Canada: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' A room set apart 
as a chapel in a home, would be likely to encourage 
reverence, and a spirit of worship amongst the mem- 
bers of the family, and insure family worship, which is 
so generally neglected in this work-a-day materialistic 
age." 

The Right Rev. Andrew H. Dunn, Bishop of 
Quebec : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' deals with a highly 
important subject and it would be good indeed if we 
could lead all our people who have rooms in their 
homes for various purposes to set apart one for 
prayer and praise." 

The Right Rev. James Fielding Sweeney, Bishop 
of Toronto : 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home' is certainly a reason- 
able ideal in every Christian household. If, as the 



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evidence is, there was a sacred spot where the patri- 
arch was wont to stand before the Lord, Gen. 19 : v. 27, 
it surely follows that there should be in every Chris- 
tian home, some little area to which the devout might 
withdraw to pray. The influence of such a spot would 
be incalculable. Why, if the family altar was set up, 
rather than making the dining room table its substitute, 
how frequently in after life would the scattered mem- 
bers of the family return in thought and catch anew 
the sacred spirit of the spot/' 

The Right Rev. Joseph Lofthouse, Bishop of 
Keewatin, Canada: 

' ' There is to my mind a real danger in making our 
religion one only of 'Church' and not 'Home/ Any- 
thing to help on this 'Home' side of religion I most 
gladly welcome." 

The Right Rev. John Philip DeMoulin, Bishop of 
Niagara, Canada: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' While in Canada 
we may have more observance of Family Prayers than 
you have in the U. S. A., we are, I fear, declining in 
that great matter, and so I trust your publication may 
through the Bishops, be a timely call to reformation. 
The setting apart in every home of a room to be used 
as a Chapel would be in itself a recognition of the 
privilege of Family Prayer and a reminder of its 
neglect when not used. I hope this effort may do much 
good in a matter of so great interest and importance." 

The Right Rev. William D. Reeve, Assistant 
Bishop of Toronto, Canada : 

' ' You have put your finger on a weak spot in our 
family life. It would be a great uplift if Family 
Prayer could be re-established in the home, or if in- 
dividuals would regard one spot in it as the 'chapel.' 
'A Chapel in Every Home' is calculated to help towards 
that end. Praying that its circulation will have the re- 
sult desired." 



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THE CREAT TRIBUTE TO THE MESSAGE FROM 
MINISTERS OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. 

The Rev. Ernest M. Stires, Rector of St. Thomas' 
Church, New York : 

' ' The words of St. Paul in his letter to Philemon, 
'The Church in thy house,' have always suggested to 
me the family oratory, as well as the Christian family. 
The value of such a chapel is not restricted to those 
who use it for purposes of devotion. It is an eloquent 
message for every visitor, for every servant, for every 
tradesman, who enters the house, just as Trinity 
Church, standing at the head of Wall Street, is a mes- 
sage even for those who have never entered its doors. 
God hasten the time when there will be a chapel in 
every home, and may His abundant blessing be with 
this inspired effort." 

The Rev. Louis C. Washburn, Rector, Christ 
Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

"The multiplication of hotels and apartment 
houses for poor as well as rich, in a generation that 
is afraid to read the Bible in its schools, calls for con- 
structive imagination and persuasiveness such as 
glows from your pages, if home religion is to be re- 
claimed. May this devout effort be abundantly re- 
warded. ' ' 

The Rev. William T. Manning, Pastor, Trinity 
Church, New York (now Bishop of New York) : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The matter did 
not come before the 1913 Convention, but the sugges- 
tion was one which could not fail to commend itself 
to earnest church people." 

The Rev. John S. Bunting, Rector, Christ Church, 
Macon, Georgia: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I think I can best 
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proceed to make the plan effective in my parish at once 
on my return from the General Convention. I think I 
may best do this by issuing a circular letter to my 
communicants about it. You have written not only an 
appeal, but a challenge to faith that will wake up more 
than one locality. The Hour, the Fact, the Place of 
Prayer, all go together. With God's blessing assured 
in this effort." 

The Rev. James S. Stone, Rector of St. James' 
P. E. Church, Chicago : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
delight, and hope and pray that He who put it into your 
heart to write it will make it a means whereby many 
of our people may be brought back to a realization of 
the duty and joy of family worship. It is a good sign 
that such a book has been printed." 

The Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Rector of the Church 
of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am very much 
pleased with it, and I believe it will do good. I wish 
all success in this good work." 

The Rev. Alexander Mann, Trinity Church, 
Boston : 

"To have in the house one room which is espe- 
cially associated in the minds of all the family, parents 
and children, with religion, is, I think, a very beautiful 
and helpful thing." 

The Rev. William R. Turner, Memorial Church 
of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia: 

"If there were more praying in the home, there 
would be more people attending Church. If the ideal 
of 'A Chapel in Every Home' were realized, the Sab- 
bath questions would be settled. I, therefore, pray 
our Heavenly Father to bless this work for Him and 
for the betterment of humanity." 



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The Rev. Eobert A. Edwards, St. John's P. E. 
Church, Holmesburg, Pa.: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I read it all 
through at one sitting- and needless to say greatly en- 
joyed it all. The idea is both unique and original. 
Anything that tends to emphasize the value and 
beauty of united prayer is worthy of hearty com- 
mendation. ' ' 

The Very Rev. Winfred H. Ziegler, Archdeacon 
St. John's Cathedral, Albuquerque, N. M. : 

"In Alaska, as one enters, at the tundra's edge, 
the poor hut of the Aleut, the shrine with its ikon and 
lights is the first thing which catches the eye. It has 
been cherished from generations and has convinced 
the babies and youths of the prevailing presence of 
One who sacrificed himself for all men. In our Amer- 
ican homes, what is there of teaching value to our chil- 
dren and our guests? The family portraits? The 
High School Diploma? The phonograph? 

"Children cannot be taught religion. If they do 
get it they get it by 'catching' it. They see that their 
fathers and mothers have it, and then they grow up in 
it. The family altar and altar cross, the holy picture, 
and the holy Book, all as part of the household furnish- 
ing, will give more of God to the child and to the man 
than years of formal religious instruction. Moreover, if 
husband and wife will earnestly, at home as well as in 
church, pray together, they will in this life more 
patiently and with more harmony live together. Grod 
bless this inspired endeavor." 

The Rev. Elwood Worcester, Emmanuel Church, 
Boston, Mass.: 

"The project appeals to me very strongly. I be- 
lieve that the general discontinuance of family wor- 
ship is one of the chief causes of the decay of practical 
Christianity, and I feel sure that any means which 
would promote such worship would be an inestimable 
religious blessing to this country." 



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The Rev. Robert Johnston, Church of the Saviour, 
Philadelphia, Pa.: 

"There are many people who would be greatly 
helped by having a little corner of the house dedicated 
as a place of quiet. I know many such and they find 
the little chapel in the home helpful to them. The 
particular place becomes by association the holy place. 
There are others, however, who like Brother Lawrence 
can realize the presence of God in the refectory of 
the monastery as vividly as at the altar of High Mass. 
This latter position is one rarely attained. I can see, 
however, that the idea of a chapel in every home might 
be the means of recovering for some the sense of the 
presence of the Eternal which could then spread over 
every detail and every place in life." 

The Rev. W. H. Roberts, State Clerk and Treas- 
urer, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 
the U. S. A. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion 
made therein is admirable, and is in full harmony with 
the spirit and fife of the Presbyterian Church in the 
U. S. A. As a Church we make much of the home 
and of the family altar. To us the head of the house- 
hold is the priest, and the gathering of the family for 
worship each day of the week, the approach of the 
household to God, acknowledging His Fatherhood, 
seeking his blessing and receiving grace sufficient for 
every need, through Jesus Christ our Lord and 
Saviour. That family worship is not a feature of the 
life of a large number of Christian families in every 
denomination is to us a source of deep regret. We 
hail, therefore, with pleasure every movement, by 
members of all Christian churches, that shall give to 
the family altar its proper place, and emphasize yet 
more clearly the declaration of the Apostle Peter, that 
Christians are a 'royal priesthood.' " 

The Rev. Perry S. Allen, President, Presbyterian 
Ministers Fund, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

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be realized in all Christian countries it would estab- 
lish the kingdom of Christ on the earth in a very short 
time, and the work of a thousand years would be done 
in a day." 

The Rev. John Grant Newman, Pastor, The 
Chambers Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it all. 
The idea is so fine that it makes me think it was given 
you in a moment of 'inspiration. I truly wish that the 
thought might become a universal fact. Let us hope 
that it may." 

The Rev. W. C. Robinson, Pastor, Northminster 
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa. : 

''The idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is cer- 
tainly a beautiful one. While I have always urged 
prayer and home religion, I never thought of the room 
set apart. It seems to me that such a room might, like 
the alabaster box of ointment, send a perfume through 
all the house and to every place where the family 
should go. In my judgment a superlative need in 
these times is to get the families back to religious 
practices. In modern pressure and hurry we have 
sacrificed things that are beyond calculation." 

The Rev. Guido Bossard, Overbrook Presbyterian 
Church, Overbrook, Philadelphia: 

"To make our religion the power it should be in 
our lives and the lives of our people, your ideal of 'A 
Chapel in Every Home' must be realized far and wide. 
Surely you may count on the hearty co-operation of 
every one interested in the highest welfare of his 
fellow men." 

The Rev. Samuel Y. Nicholls, Pastor, Second 
Presbyterian Church, St. Louis: 

"I heartily approve of the plan advocated in 'A 
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to the support of family religion. "The Church in the 
House' is first in importance, and whatever promotes 
its welfare should receive the earnest consideration 
of all Christians. The Chapel in the House should be 
the most sacred and inspiring room in it. A little 
sanctuary, a place for prayer and meditation, a refuge 
in times of sorrow and trouble, and an altar place for 
the sacrifice of praise. I trust the plan suggested may 
have its practical application in thousands of homes 
and have its fruit in the revival of family religion." 

The Rev. George Rutger Brauer, First Presby- 
terian Church, Setauket, L. I. : 

' ' If households could be interested and persuaded 
to adopt this idea, there would be a gracious revival 
of pure and undefiled religion. Most homes have a 
parlor reserved for company, a guest chamber for 
visitors. Is there any place in our homes reserved 
for God? What a beautiful idea that is, to have a 
chapel in the home, some nook or corner which has 
been beautified, made convenient and comfortable, re- 
served for God and the future of spiritual fife/' 

The Rev. W. Lyall Wilson, Dundee, Scotland : 

" 4 A Chapel in Every Home.' I am glad that I 
had the opportunity of discussing its subject matter 
with you personally. You know already how heartily 
I sympathize with your suggestion, and believing firmly 
as I do that the family is the unit of a healthy and 
happy state, I welcome and support everything that 
aims at the consecration and elevation of the home." 

The Rev. Walter Calley, Pastor, First Baptist 
Church, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.: 

"I believe the idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' 
is worthy of careful thought and if carried into prac- 
tice would do much to sweeten the family life and 
bring the individual nearer to God." 

The Rev. L. Walton Terry, N. W. Baptist Conven- 
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" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is something 
entirely new to me and I have read the same with a 
great deal of interest. Praying that God may bless 
this effort for the betterment of Homes." 

The Rev. Hulbert G. Beeman, Pastor, Walnut 
Street Baptist Church, Waterloo, Iowa : 

' t The longer I am in the pastorate, the more I am 
convinced of the great need of the present day, in the 
revival of personal and family devotion. 'A Chapel 
in Every Home' suggests a plan that will greatly aid 
in this direction. It should have the co-operation and 
hearty support of every Clergyman in this matter." 

The Eev. H. C. Rosamond, Pastor, First Baptist 
Church, Eldorado, Ark. : 

"The idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is one of 
the very best and will be far-reaching in its influence. 
I pray that the Holy Spirit will use it as a means of 
establishing a Chapel in many thousands of homes. I 
hope that it will get millions of our people to hold 
frequent communion with God. May His richest bless- 
ing rest upon this work." 

The Rev. David Carol Williams, Pastor, First 
Baptist Church, Globe, Ariz. : 

"The idea of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is a 
capital one, and that which will help build up the 
family life is certainly to be welcomed. The home out 
of touch with God is an immeasurable hindrance to 
all our work." 

George L. White, General Missionary and Corre- 
sponding Secretary, American Baptist Home Mission- 
ary Society, Salt Lake City, Utah: 

" 'The Chapel in Every Home' presents a most 
excellent idea. In proportion as its aim can be realized 
we will have more devout lives and more happy 
homes." 



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The Eev. George D. Adams, Pastor, Chestnut 
Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

"The ideal of 'A Chapel in Every Home' is truly 
splendid and ought to be realized in a Christian civil- 
ization. Too long the world has had 'no room in the 
Inn' for Christ. Family worship is the tap root of 
religion and the propagation of such worship is sure 
promotion of the Kingdom of God in the earth." 

The Eev. A. C. Applegarth, Pastor, The Chestnut 
Hill Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' God speed this 
good work. All who have had experience know that 
out of the home are the issues of life. As the home 
is, so will the business and social worlds be. And the 
'church in the sanctuary ' will never be and do what 
the Master intends it should be and do until once more 
we have 'church in the house.' " 

The Eev. W. C. Golden, Corresponding Secretary, 
Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' strikes the key-note 
of the highest ideal of home religion." 

The Eev. Kerr Boyce Tupper, Pastor, First Bap- 
tist Church, Philadelphia: 

"A Chapel in every house is an ideal not more 
unique and novel than it is desirable and practicable. 
Years ago a great and good man said, 'Where God has 
given roof there He expects an altar'; and the chapel 
thought is one that should be emphasized in connec- 
tion with the altar thought. Why not have in our 
homes, then, a special place where men can hear God's 
voice, meditate upon G,od's word and grow in God's 
image; a place which more and more becomes to the 
soul a gate of Heaven and a door to immortality, a 
fixed and familiar place of communication with the 
Infinite and the Eternal?" 



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The Rev. George W. Truett, Pastor, First Baptist 

Church, Dallas, Texas: 

"The citadel both for Church and State is the 
Home. As goes the Home, so shall go everything 
throughout all the social order. The lofty resolution 
of the noble Joshua should be the dominant resolution 
in every Home: 'As for me and my house, we will 
serve the Lord.' There can be no substitutes for the 
duty and privilege of Family Worship. Whatever, 
therefore, will magnify the best expression of Chris- 
tianity in the Home should have the unceasing and 
most faithful attention of the people everywhere, of 
every age, class, condition and circumstance.' ' 

The Eev. H. H. Weber, General Secretary, the 
Board of Church Extension of the General Synod of 
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United 
States : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' strikes a tender 
chord in my heart. I say splendid. Nothing will so 
much conduce to make us better men and women, as 
the secret chamber for prayer in every home in 
America. I am pleased, too, with the whole argument 
on the subject. It is telling and most convincing. I 
trust and pray the day may soon come when 'A Chapel 
in Every Home' will be a reality." 

The Rev. E. P. Pfatteicher, Pastor, Evangelical 
Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, Philadel- 
phia, Pa.: 

' ' Thirty years ago there was no dust on the family 
Bible. Ten years ago it was covered with dust. To- 
day there is no family Bible. We must replace it and 
use it. If our religion is vital, of course there ought 
to be 'A Chapel in Every Home' and it ought not to 
be in the attic. Your purpose is definite and highly 
essential if righteousness is to continue in our land.'' 

The Rev. J. Eugene Dietterich, Pastor of St. 
Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Glenside, Mont- 
gomery County, Pa.: 



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"I believe every home should have a bathroom 
and a chapel, the one for the body and the other for 
the soul. I wish every home could have its chapel 
where family worship could be conducted and where 
every member of the family — and visitors too — could 
go for private devotions — where all would be expected 
to go before breakfast and before retiring. I believe 
it would sweeten the temper of every one, cause each 
to be more kindly disposed toward the other, prevent 
the children being led away in bad courses of con- 
duct, bind husband and wife closer together, bring all 
into closer fellowship with God and in a closer follow- 
ing of His guidance, develop Christian character and 
Christian experiences, make life worth living and 
death worth dying. Family Worship such as our 
fathers had seems to be too largely abandoned. I 
hope this idea of the 'chapel' in the home may not 
only take its place, but enlarge its scope. I shall pray 
for the extension of the work and I shall be glad if I 
can do anything to help the good cause." 

The Eev. S. A. Ziegenfuss, Pastor, St. Michael's 
Lutheran Church, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' will surely serve 
to awaken many hearts to a revival of the family altar 
which in too many instances has been neglected. I 
sincerely hope that the noble end may be reached, and 
the family life may be permeated with the spirit of 
true devotion. With the prayer that 'A Chapel in 
Every Home' may have the divine blessing and the 
effort be crowned with success." 

The Eev. W. Bamford, Pastor, Cookman Methodist 
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia: 

" 'A Chapel in the Home' takes me back into my 
yesterdays when father, mother and seven children 
gathered around the family altar. Father would read 
the Bible and pray and upon closing the prayer mother 
would rise from her knees, pass along the line of the 
seven children, placing her hand upon the head of 
each child, would send up a brief ejaculation beginning 
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her side. I was the fifth child. Oh ! the touch of that 
hand on my head, and the sound of that voice in my 
ears, as she said: 'God bless my boy, William.' I feel 
the touch and hear the voice today. 
" ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
And ask what report they bore to heaven.' " 

The Rev. P. W. Webb, Pastor, A. M. E. Church, 
Marche, Ark. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am just in from 
attending my annual conference. Finding this valuable 
asset added to my scant library I am forced to feel that 
I am highly complimented. Timely indeed does the 
force of its language, so heartily endorsed by the lead 
ers of a great church, clinch itself upon and within my 
heart. The thought of the Home and its spiritual 
atmosphere being of vital concern to me, becomes more 
so, since gleaning these pages. So much do my people 
(colored) need it that I could not refrain seizing the 
privilege of equipping myself for the distribution of its 
message. I fear that we are departing somewhat from 
the force of its plea." 

The Rev. Oscar Edward Maurer, Pastor, The First 
Church of Christ, New Haven, Connecticut: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' In a day when the 
fires on the family altar seem to wane, it is a great 
joy to one who believes implicitly in the immense prac- 
tical value of the devotional life, to find that a busy pro- 
fessional man is furthering the cause of family worship 
— not theoretically, but by outlining a practicable plan. 
I wish it every success." 

The Rev. Henry & Clubb, Pastor of the Philadel- 
phia Bible Christian Church : 

".'A Chapel in Every Home.' Had this idea and 
suggestion been adopted in Europe three years ago the 
war that is now devastating that quarter of the world, 
in all probability would not have occurred." 



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The Rev. George Hamilton Combs, Independence 
Boulevard Christian Church, Kansas City: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Let me express my 
appreciation of this work — none more beautiful, more 
urgent. The home! — everything must begin there/' 

The Rev. "William V. Berg, Pastor, Central Con- 
gregational Church, Philadelphia, Pa. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am in hearty 
sympathy with the motive which prompted the prepara- 
tion of this book, and on the manner of the presentation 
of this timely subject." 

The Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, Evangelist and Presi- 
dent of the Family Altar Leagme, Chicago, 111. : 

"The thought of 'A Chapel in Every Home' ap- 
peals to me mightily. It holds me in a grip of tremen- 
dous interest. I stood recently in the home of a church 
officer and saw one of the best rooms dedicated to the 
billiard game, another room dedicated to music, and 
yet another room given to a conservatory for flowers, 
and I confessed to my disappointment in finding no 
room for the worship of God. Profoundly grateful for 
every modern movement dedicated to the uplift of 
humanity we are, nevertheless, face to face with the 
solemn recognition that unless the Church rings out 
with increased and clarion emphasis the slogan 'Back 
to Family Worship' society is lost. Here is the divine 
source of that prevention which is far better than any 
cure, which, alas ! so often is never found. The thought 
is big with meaning. It is beautiful; it is practical. 
Christian Conventions ought to emphasize it. Eccle- 
siastical Assemblies ought to encourage it. Christian 
people ought to practice it. May God prosper this 
great thought." 

Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Temple, Philadelphia: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Your noble appeal 
for a revival of one of the most sacred of former-day 
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which you have issued it. I have read the same from 
cover to cover with genuine delight." 

Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Congregation Rodelph 
Shalom, Philadelphia: 

"I am just now engaged in compiling a very in- 
teresting collection of home prayers to be used by the 
Central Conference of American Rabbis. I cite these 
facts, as I presume they will interest you, as indicative 
of the fulfillment of those pious sentiments which have 
prompted you to the earnest advocacy of the promotion 
of the reverent spirit in the home."' 



BIBLE, SUNDAY SCHOOL, CHRISTIAN AND 
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. 

E. K. Mohr, Superintendent, Purity Department, 
The International Sunday School Association: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' You cannot claim 
too much for this splendid idea, and the hearty re- 
sponse from so many leaders is witness to the fact that 
God has spoken through you to a real need in heart 
and home. Invited to many Christian homes in differ- 
ent parts of the country, the 'Chapel' shall not be for- 
gotten and I trust I may learn to speak about it that 
many bless God for this practical suggestion." 

W. G. Landes, General Secretary, Pennsylvania 
State Sabbath School Association, Philadelphia, Pa. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home. ' I have gone through 
it with interest and I feel that God has given you an 
idea that should at once impress every individual who 
desires to see the kingdom of God extended through 
this great land of ours. In these days of commercial- 
ism, when values are considered by the temporary 
standard of dollars and cents, it is well to have our 
attention called to the things that are eternal and 
divine. The strength of this nation is in its home life, 
and if in the home a place can be secured where daily 
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homes cannot help but be purer, and from which our 
children will go in the strength of right living and 
righteousness. ' r 

George H. Stuart, Jr., President, The Home Mis- 
sionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, Vice-Pres- 
ident, The Philadelphia Bible Society: 

' ' The message of 'A Chapel in Every Home ' brings 
a new light to the world. It is a challenge to the faith 
of us all. A Christian household is the unit upon whose 
foundation is built the structure of an enduring na- 
tional life, and the influence of this message shall be 
recorded upon the pages of history. The title, so well 
chosen by the author, clearly indicates the intimate 
connection between worship, and family reverence for 
those objects which transcend the grosser elements of 
our physical being. 

"If ever there was a time when the chapel in the 
home would throw its beacon light upon a world, sin- 
tossed and struggling with passions and doubts,, surely 
it is now. It would shine out over the raging sea of 
wavering faith and pilot us into the haven of prayer, 
to find sweet comfort and divine guidance in the sanc- 
tuary of the Most High. Within its portals we could 
lay our weakness, our sorrow and our perplexity be- 
fore our God, and in secret communion, in our own 
home, day or night. The banner of our sanctuary 
would ever proclaim to our fellow-man our allegiance 
to the King of Kings, and our brotherhood with human- 
ity. The thought is a noble one in its conception and 
wholly practicable of execution. 

"May this chapel, therefore, be set up in every 
home throughout our land, and in every land, that by 
its sacred influence, admission, and teachings, the youth 
and manhood of the world may find, enjoy and trans- 
mit to succeeding generations the blessings alike of 
true religion and civil and political liberty." 

Emilie F. Kearney, Teacher Training Superin- 
tendent, Philadelphia County Sunday School Associa- 
tion: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Those of us who are 
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city can appreciate what a Chapel in Every Home would 
mean to the spiritual life of our people — it would go a 
long way toward solving our great religious problems. 
You can be assured that I am with you in your work 
and will be glad to speak about its glorious possibilities 
whenever I have the opportunity." 

Anne Townsend Scribner, President, Federation 
Women's Bible Classes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a beautiful 
thought, and is directly in line with our conviction in 
the Federation. We believe as you do, that 'The home 
and the family is the cornerstone on which rests na- 
tional life and progress'; only we, of course, empha- 
size the position that woman holds as the key to a great 
part of the situation with a devoted, consecrated wom- 
anhood, studying the Bible. An idea such as is con- 
veyed in your book of a consecrated place in the home 
would be of inestimable benefit." 

Ellen E. Fay, Missionary, Faith Mission, Kanbalu, 
Burma, India : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' For many years I 
have tried to have a quiet place for communion with 
God. The heathen in their homes have a place in one 
corner devoted to their gods, where many times a day 
they bow for worship. I hope and pray that your book 
may lead Christians to consecrate some place in their 
homes to God." 

David H. Wright, Secretary, American Red Cross, 
Philadelphia Chapter, Independence Hall, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. : 

" It is a superb thought, and one that will, without 
doubt, weave itself into the pages of history." 

D. L. Anderson, for twenty-five years Assistant 
Superintendent of Bethany Sunday School, Philadel- 
phia (John- Wanamaker's) : 



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"I have read with much interest your 'Home 
Chapel' idea, and must say that I feel only God through 
His spirit could have inspired it. My sainted father and 
mother had a special place of prayer in our old Home- 
stead. I have tried in a weak way to follow their exam- 
ple. The Home must be the salvation of the race or at 
least the foundation must be laid there. May God bless 
you and establish your plans over our country. " ' 

William Hamilton, Chairman, Home and Visitation 
Committee, The International Sunday School Associa- 
tion, Toronto, Canada : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I commend your 
wisdom in reaching with this the chief officers of the 
various religious denominations, and I am glad to see 
with what unanimity they endorse a movement for the 
restitution of a Family Altar." 

G. S. Eddy, Associate General Secretary, Foreign 
Work, The International Committee of Young Men's 
Christian Association, New York: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is a remarkable 
little volume. If this could be introduced into every 
home, what good it would accomplish. May God bless 
you in this work." 

Robert H. Gardner, Secretary, World Conference 
on Faith and Order: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am sure it will be 
of great value in restoring the recognition of the need 
of family prayers." 

Hubert Carleton, General Secretary and Editor of 
St. Andrew's Cross: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' You are certainly to 
be congratulated on the interest you have aroused over 
such a very wide and influential field. A mention of it 
in St. Andrew's Cross will, I am sure, call to the at- 
tention of many eager to do everything they can to de- 



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velop the Christian life in themselves and in others, 
the need and blessing of following what you advocate." 

W. S. Battin, Secretary and Registrar, Synod, Dio- 
cese of Toronto: 

"The first thought that occurred to me, after the 
perusal of 'A Chapel in Every Home' was one of 
thankfulness to the Divine Ruler that, in this age of 
strenuousness and worldliness, there should be one 
with a sufficient realization of the responsibility rest- 
ing upon him to devote the necessary time and thought 
to a matter which certainly should be considered of 
first and paramount importance. In the career of every 
family, as in that of every individual, the fear of Grod 
should be the starting point, but in too many cases I 
fear it is not. If every young couple upon getting mar- 
ried could be persuaded, right at the start, to estab- 
lish a chapel or altar in their home and have family 
prayer, it would prove a good example to the children, 
and prevent many troubles in after life. Much might 
be done by the clergy in this connection. In the build- 
ing up of this vast country, yours and ours, we want 
good, honest, reliable, Christian men and women, and 
in the inculcation of the principles contained in your 
book, you are doing" your best towards the attainment 
of this desirable result. Trusting that the effort may 
be abundantly blessed." 



PRESIDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES 
AND SEMINARIES. 

Henry B. Brown, A. M., President, Valparaiso 
University, Valparaiso, Indiana. 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I certainly con- 
gratulate you on the courage you have had to present 
this matter in such a delightful way. If the plan could 
be carried out (and why could it not?) there would be 
no need for jails and penitentiaries. I appreciate more 
than I can tell your kindness in sending me a copy. If 
there is any way in which I can co-operate with you I 
shall be only too happy to do so." 



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A. B. Storms, LL. D., D. D., President, Iowa State 
College : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea of having 
a chapel in every home is of great interest. The sug- 
gestion appeals to me strongly. I do not see why it is 
not practicable. In an age of feverish commercialism 
and intellectual excitement men need more than ever a 
place of retreat." 

W. H. P. Faunce, D. D., President, Brown Univer- 
sity, Providence : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Certainly the home 
is the unit of civilization, and whatever strengthens 
and deepens home life is an aid to the life of the entire 
nation. I believe in the quiet hour as of great value 
to every human being, and shall be glad if, through 
your efforts, that hour can find permanent place in 
many lives. ' ' 

James B. Angell, LL. D., President, University of 
Michigan : 

"Thank you for 'A Chapel in Every Home' con- 
taining your excellent suggestion and its endorsement 
by eminent men, some of them my old friends. It gives 
me great pleasure to say how heartily I coincide with 
you and with them, and especially with my old college - 
mate, George Dana Boardman. If this publication 
serves to restore the old custom of family prayers, you 
will no doubt regard yourself as amply repaid. ' ' 

Edgar Fahs Smith, Sc. D., LL. D., Provost, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I want you to know 
that I feel there is a great deal in your plan — more than 
any one of us realizes." 

F. W. Hamilton, D. D., LL. D., President, Tufts 
College, Mass.: 

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David Starr Jordan, LL. D., President, Leland 
Stanford, Jr., University, California: 

u 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The suggestion is 
certainly one of great interest to religious people." 

Henry S. Drinker, LL. D., President, Lehigh Uni- 
versity : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
much interest and have at once placed it in our college 
library for the inspection of our faculty and students." 

Sidney E. Mezes, Ph. D., President, University of 
Texas : 

"Your suggestion and the letters regarding it are 
sure to prove helpful and inspiring to those who are 
fortunate enough to receive them." 

Alston Ellis, Ph. D., LL. D., President, Ohio Uni- 
versity : 

"I thank you for giving me the opportunity to read 
and study the contents of the booklet which is freighted 
with what I regard as a most pertinent statement rela- 
tive to a matter of supreme importance." 

A. W. Harris, LL. D., President, Northwestern 
University, Evanstown and Chicago, 111. : 

"I am much interested in the purpose of your 
booklet, ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' I trust it will ac- 
complish the results which your energy deserves." 

Josiah H. Penniman, LL. D., Provost, University 
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia : 

"The thought that there should be set apart a 
portion of each day for religious meditation and wor- 
ship is, of course, a generally accepted one, but your 
thought that there should not only be a time, but also 
a special place in every home, however great, or how- 



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ever humble, which should be set apart as a place of 
worship, is of importance, for it emphasizes the neces- 
sity in the life, and in the home. Moreover, the fact 
that there is such a place in the house is likely to keep 
ever in the minds of its occupants, the necessity of hav- 
ing also a time for worship. 

' ' Of course, God may be worshipped acceptably in 
any place, but, in a special place, the worship is less 
apt to be interfered with by the encroachments of 
worldly thoughts and worldly things. If your idea could 
be realized in every home where men profess and be- 
lieve in and worship God, the effect on those who do 
not make such professions would be incalculably great 
for good. 

"May your devotion to a great cause, the greatest 
of all causes, be rewarded by the setting apart of in- 
numerable places of worship sacred to God whom we 
profess to serve." 

Edwin E. Sparks, LL. D., President, Pennsylvania 
State College: 

"The matter you present so lucidly and forcefully 
should appeal to every American citizen. I will place 
the book in the college library where I hope it will be 
of continued service to present and future students." 

Frank Strong, Chancellor of the University of 
Kansas : 

"With best wishes for 'A Chapei in Every 
Home.' " 

Henry A. Buttz, D. D., President, Drew Theo- 
logical Seminary, Madison, N. J. : 

"The setting apart of a particular room in the 
house, however small, as you suggest, which shall be 
recognized as the home of the spirit, where the family 
and friends may be gathered for communion with God, 
cannot be otherwise than promotive of spiritual life 
and constitute a telling uplift towards better living; 
it will also serve as a bond to unite parents and chil- 
dren together better perhaps than any other method." 



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The Rev. J. H. Stahr, President, Franklin and 
Marshall College : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I have read it with 
a great deal of interest and I heartily agree with you 
in the statement that 'any effectual means of strength- 
ening and uplifting home life, of deepening the relig- 
ious and moral convictions and purity which are the 
very essence of home life, must have vital effect upon 
the national life of the human family as a whole.' If 
every family could be induced to have a sacred place, a 
sacred time would naturally follow, and there would 
be restored to family life the element of stated wor- 
ship now so sadly lacking." 

Gustav Andrees, President of Augustana College 
and Theological Seminary, Bock Island, Illinois : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' received. I thank 
you very much for the same and certainly believe with 
you that there should be a family center for spiritual 
thought and communication and uplift. In my father's 
home, I may well say that his library was this center. 
In Fjellstedt College, in Upsala, Sweden, there was a 
room set apart for the use of the students and teach- 
ers, solely for prayer and meditation." 

George B. Stewart, President of the Auburn Theo- 
logical Seminary, Auburn, New Yiork: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I wish to express 
my unqualified approval of the idea. Many years ago 
Mrs. Stewart and I entertained the same thought and 
set apart a room in our house for such uses. It is true, 
we did not carry out the idea as fully as you have 
carried it out, but we regarded it as our 'prayer room.' 
I think you have worked out the idea in a beautiful 
and in a practical way, and I join with you in the hope 
that many may be led by what you have said to con- 
secrate their homes in this most helpful way." 

E. P. Fairchild, President, Lincoln Memorial Uni- 
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" 'A Chapel in Every Home/ I was much im- 
pressed when I first saw the title, with the value of the 
thought. I think there can be no question but that this 
important message was given you to deliver at this 
time. We have always had the family altar at our 
home since our marriage in 1882 and I would rather be 
deprived of most any other daily blessing than this. 
There should also be the Chapel in Every home. This 
seems natural and almost a necessity, and would be 
quite sure to lead to family prayers. ' ' 

Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton Univer- 
sity: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am sure that every 
one will appreciate the spirit in which you have con 
ceived it. ' ' 

Fletcher Homan, LL. D., President, Willamette 
University, Salem, Oregon: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It is designed to 
do great good and to accomplish the most permanent 
blessings in every home. A reverential appreciation of 
the presence of God is the surest ground of safety and 
happiness for the home, the community or nation. May 
the richest blessings of the Father of us all attend this 
great service to mankind." 

D. R. Frazer, President of the German Theological 
School of Newark, N. J. : 

' ' The specific work of our school is the training of 
ministers to carry the gospel to the hosts of foreign- 
speaking peoples now landing on our shores, in order 
that every man may hear the glad tidings in his own 
tongue wherein he was born. Of course, this immense 
immigration brings its own perils and problems. 
These we are striving to solve. But we feel that the 
real danger of our civilization lies in the degradation of 
the American home in which is being reared a 
generation concerning whom it can be truthfully said, 
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bukes this tendency to live 'without God in the world' 
and we hope it may help in the speedy uprearing of 
'A Chapel in Every Home.' " 

Rev. Samuel Hart Dean, Berkeley Divinity School, 
Middletown, Conn. : 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' Your plan and pur- 
pose certainly commend themselves, and I sincerely 
hope that what you have written will bring many to 
see the value of rightly ordered family prayer suitably 
provided for." 

The Right Rev. Lewis W. Burton, President, Mar- 
garet College, Versailles, Ky. : 

"I wish and earnestly pray that your lofty ideals 
and purpose may have the most desirable result of 
leading our people to a return to the family altar and 
to such devotions as will sanctify the home, and pre- 
vent that which seems to be the most dangerous of the 
features of our modern civilization — the loss to the 
modern generation of pure, inspiring home-life, which 
was such a mighty factor in the life of preceding gen- 
erations, the problems of modern house-keeping break- 
ing up everywhere the households of our people." 



OTHER EDUCATORS. 

Charles F. Kent, Professor of Biblical Literature, 
Yale University, New Haven, Conn. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I am eager to wel- 
come any plan which will develop religion here in Amer- 
ica. This development of the family so that it will 
function, is certainly the great task which lies before 
us in the present generation. In many homes, espe- 
cially where the more ritualistic type of faith prevails, 
I am sure that your plan will prove of great value. It 
has seemed to me that in the average home the prob- 
lem of restoring family worship must be worked out by 
adapting it veiy closely and simply to the habits and 
limitations of each individual family group, as they at 
present, exist." 



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Warren Powers Laird, Dean, Department of 
Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 
phia, Pa.: 

"The Family Altar of earlier generations was 
but a name as far as concerned the visible instruments 
of divine worship, and yet how real the influence upon 
home life of the thing for which that name stood, the 
daily gathering of the household for a common ap- 
proach to the presence of a personal Grod! The 
practice seems to be passing with changing conditions 
of life, yet the necessity for it is no less. Indeed, the 
increasing diversity and pressure of the distractions 
of life, render more desirable some tangible reminder 
of the necessity of prayer in daily life, and your sug- 
gestion of 'A Chapel in Every Home' points the way 
to a practical satisfaction of that need. 

' ' To the architect whose created works are not only 
the seat but the symbol of the life to be lived within 
them, the opportunity to incorporate a chapel in the 
home must bring peculiar satisfaction, for it would 
enable him to complete the practical provisions for the. 
various functions of home life, now too universally 
confined to the physical and social sides. The 'ora- 
tory' or private chapel of mediaeval times has ever 
enriched and dignified the house in which it appeared 
because it was a frank declaration, in the most beauti- 
ful form possible to craftsmanship, of the supreme 
place allotted to religion in the life of the establish- 
ment. 

"It is to be hoped that the place of prayer will 
increasingly be made a part of the equipment of our 
homes and I am sure that your earnest efforts will 
give distinct impulse to this end." 

William Draper Lewis, Dean, Department of 
Law, University of Pennsylvania : 

4 ' Each line of what you say bears evidence of the 
fact that you have given to the idea your best thought 
for a long time. The idea is an inspiring one and 
you have succeeded in giving me some of your en- 
thusiasm for it." 



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Richard M. Jones, LL. D., Head Master, William 
Penn Charter School, Philadelphia: 

"I have been greatly interested in the subject 
which you present so lucidly and so convincingly. You 
certainly are on the right track, and if you accomplish 
nothing more than to draw the attention of our people 
to the importance of some sort of family worship, 
your efforts will merit and will receive the grateful 
appreciation of your fellow men." 

George E. Nitzsche, Recorder of the University of 
Pennsylvania : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home' is a very great 
contribution to the general betterment of humanity. 
I am sure it already has, and will continue to have, 
wide influence in making happier many homes." 

ACACIA FRATERNITY. 

Acacia Fraternity, iCornell University, Allen 
Jayne, Secretary: 

"Our chapter is in receipt of 'A Chapel in Every 
Home.' Personally I believe that the chief ill of the 
country today is the lack of religious influence on the 
children in their own homes. Religious impressions 
when made on children at the proper age go deep into 
the character and have great influence in the years 
to come, although sometimes this influence is not 
recognized by any except the person himself." 

Acacia Fraternity, University of Chicago, Donald 
J. Pope, Secretary: 

' ' Our chapter is in receipt of ' A Chapel in Every 
Home.' Our complex society is continually more in 
need of higher ideals of duty to God and fellow man 
and each should note with pleasure the efforts of all 
who attempt to raise these ideals." 



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Acacia Fraternity, Columbia University, New 
York, E. F. Humphrey, Secretary: 

"I -wish on behalf of Tsadhe Chapter of Acacia 
Fraternity to extend to you our heartfelt thanks for 
the copy of 'A Chapel in Every Home.' It brings 
back to our minds the impressive talk on that subject 
given to us on that memorable March 20th night. We 
shall most carefully treasure it among our archives." 

Acacia Fraternity, Columbia University, New 
York, H. H. Holmes, President: 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' Many thanks on be- 
half of our chapter, but a gift so extraordinary in its 
sweetness of spirit merits all that can be said person- 
ally and officially. 

"I can anticipate the joy of our chapter by my 
own delight. The night of our first banquet you en- 
graved upon the tablets of our hearts, 'A Chapel in 
Every Home.' Pleasant are those memories, and 
now that we have the same beautiful sentiments in 
booklet form you may imagine our appreciation. 
Coming at this day of unrest and skepticism, 'A 
Chapel in Every Home ' serves well to strike a counter 
stroke to such movements, and I am sure many of our 
youthful courses will be steered to better services by 
your kind words." 

Acacia Fraternity, Harvard University, Floyd L. 
Duxbury, Secretary: 

' ' You have made a valuable addition to our library 
and given us a good thought. We thank you most 
heartily, especially for the idea." 

Acacia Fraternity, University of Kansas, Walter 
G. Theile, Secretary: 

' ' ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' You have given us 
a great ideal to think about and the thoughts and 
sentiments expressed in it will receive much considera- 
tion from us." 



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Acacia Fraternity, University of Michigan, L. S. 
Mercer, Secretary: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home/ We appreciate it 
and feel that it is something that deserves more than 
ordinary attention. ' ' 

OTHER PROMINENT LAYMEN. 

Hon. Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia, President, 
American Bar Association : 

"I recall that you spoke to me of this beautiful 
thought nearly ten years ago, and the words you used 
made me realize, as I had never done before, affirma- 
tively and positively, the value as a tower of strength 
and consolation in the family life of men and women 
of the presence of a domestic shrine. I have never 
forgotten those words, and I am now happy in being 
the recipient of the book in which the thought is 
permanently embalmed. ' ' 

George Wharton Pepper, United States Senator 
from Pennsylvania: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I entirely approve 
of your main idea. It seems to me that family prayers 
ought to be an important part of family life. I am 
sure that it is a great help to reverence and devotion 
to have a place set apart for family devotions. In my 
household wq know from practical experience that 
this is true." 

Hon. George B. Orlady, President Judge, The 
Superior Court of Pennsylvania: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I sincerely hope 
that the seed thus planted will bear fruit an hundred 
fold." 

Charles F. Gallagher, Counsellor at Law, Boston, 
Mass. : 

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that appeals to the religious side of every life. You 
have certainly sowed a wonderful quantity of good 
seed and the harvest ought to be ripe indeed."' 

John A. Dix, Ex-Governor of the State of New 
York: 

' ' ' A Chapel in Every Home ' builds a sure founda- 
tion for future generations of character of the Chris- 
tian type. The chapel at the hearthstone where parents 
and children render thanks for blessings vouchsafed, 
should have the universal approval." 

William Homan, Provincial Grand Treasurer for 
the United States, Royal Order of Scotland, New York 
City: 

"1 am full of enthusiasm over your work and 
know your initiative is the first impetus of a great 
movement. ' ' 

W. D. Vincent, Vice-president, Old National Bank, 
Spokane, Washington: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' The idea is cer- 
tainly a splendid one, and at this time can be made 
more impressive than ever after the war. Reading 
what you say makes one feel like being an evangelist 
in the cause. With the hope that there will be a 
chapel in Every home. ' ' 

Mrs. Ida M. Ryan, Suffern, N. Y. : 

' ' I think a chapel should be in every home. ' ' 

Brig. Gen., F. S. Strong, U. S. Army: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home/ The purpose which 
prompted you to undertake the work is in the highest 
degree commendable and the results cannot be but sat- 
isfactory. It will be a pleasure for me to show it to 
as many of my friends as possible in the hope that it 
may strike a responsive chord in their hearts." 



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R. E. Field, Banker, Cincinnati, Ohio: 

"I can only subscribe to the many high testimoni- 
als contained in 'A Chapel in Every Home' that it is, 
indeed, a wonderful idea and one which I am sure will 
bear fruit in bringing to millions of families in this 
universe a higher sense of duty to their Maker, with 
the certainty that civilization will be much more sub- 
stantially advanced." 

Mary Dunn Kuser, Bordentown, N. J. : 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I congratulate you 
upon this work which I feel is an inspired one. The 
times are ripe for a great and universal religious up- 
rising. There are evidences of the reaction against 
materialism on every hand and your book is one of the 
finger posts. The thought suggested is most beautiful 
and elevating and the concrete results will be beyond 
your estimating." 

Alba B. Johnson, President, The Baldwin Locomo- 
tive Works, Philadelphia: 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' One of the saddest 
things of this period in which we live is the decadence 
of family worship and the lack of religious teaching in 
the home. The loss of religious vitality therefrom to 
the younger generation is a deplorable fact which must 
have far-reaching effects, and against which we should 
strive with every effort in our power." 

Howard B. French, President, Philadelphia Cham- 
ber of Commerce : 

"I trust that your vision may grow as years pass 
and that your life may be spared to realize that the 
foundation which you commenced constructing in 1898 
will show a superstructure appropriate to the founda- 
tion which you built." 

Francis B. Reeves, Philadelphia: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Thank God I know 



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the value of the chapel in the home, by dearest experi- 
ence. It is to be lamented that our gospel preachers 
as a rule are not alive to the duties of father and 
mother in the home." 

John S. Bioien, Merchants Union Trust Company, 
Philadelphia, Pa. : 

" ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' It would be of vast 
advantage to our country were a greater recognition 
made in American family life of Almighty guidance. 
The subject is approached from innumerable points of 
view, but the need exists and acknowledgment should 
be more general. ' ' 

John A. Wiedersheim, Philadelphia, Pa.: 

" 'A Chapel in Every Home.' Its object is great 
and I hope that it will do much, all in good time. In 
these days of business, excitement, pleasure and for- 
getfulness, causing indifference to and neglect of our 
Maker, your work will help to bring back the people 
to their allegiance and duty to Him." 

John McMurdie Warner, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania : 

il 'A Chapel in Every Home.' I thank you sin- 
cerely for the privilege of having this tribute of your 
respect and love to all powerful God to keep as a per- 
manent memento of a friendship which has extended 
over eighteen years ; and during the past ten years or 
more, when in some quiet spot wherever I happened to 
be, I have daily asked our Heavenly Father to bless 
and guide you and your family." 

George Bradford Carr, Member of the Philadel- 
phia Bar: 

' ' ' A Chapel in Every Home. ' In reading it I find 
myself in hearty accord with every word and line of 
its contents. It is an appeal to the highest and best in 
all of us, I am sure that you are right, and that if we 



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lived closer to God in prosperity, our burden of sorrow 
would be lighter to bring- to Him in time of disappoint- 
ment and disaster." 

Rufus J. Foster, M. E., Scranton, Pennsylvania : 

"Monday night at the annual dinner of the Men's 
Guild of the St. Luke's Parish, the speakers were the 
Rector, Rev. Robert P. Kreitler, Bishop Biller, South 
Dakota, Judge Fuller, of Wilkes-Barre, and Bishop 
Israel, of Erie. It will interest you to know that the 
text of Bishop Israel's address was your book, 'A 
Chapel in Every Home.' He related how he had found 
a copy of the book on his desk at the General Conven- 
tion and afterwards wrote you and received a copy of 
the more elaborately bound volume. His speech was a 
magnificent one, and very thrilling." 

William Waterall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : 

" 'The Chapel in the Home' — as you picture it — < 
is a reverent and beautiful conception — and will surely 
be helpful in promoting the establishing of the family 
altar in the home. When I saw your little sanctuary 
in the West Philadelphia home, it recalled far-off days, 
and the sacred devotions that hallow the memory of 
my boyhood life in England, and my matured family 
life in America. Trusting that God's blessing will go 
with this message." 



In the foregoing reception of the message of "A 
Chapel in Every Home" we find men and women, hail- 
ing with praise and gladness the dawn of pre-eminent 
reverence, veneration and respect for Almighty God 
in all human habitations. There is a gentleness, a com- 
pleteness about their closing around the message with 
mingling consecration — a perfect acceptance, which 
makes it imperishable. This message will live from 
generation to generation, even unto the end, growing 
by adoption into a fullness and beauty; crowning hu- 



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man existence with new joys through a daily closer 
communion with our Father in Heaven, and every 
home shall be a house of prayer. 

"Son of man, behold, they of the house of 
Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many 
days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that 
are far off. Therefore say unto them, Thus saith 
the Lord God; There shall none of my words be 
prolonged any more, but the word that I have 
spoken shall be done, saith the Lord." — Ezekiel 
12 : 27-28. 

I 

This appeal to the world for a chapel in every 
home closes with the prayer that all who read it may 
see the vision of the future in its adoption, and help 
to make the vision a reality. 

"And the peace of God, which passeth all un- 
derstanding, shall keep your hearts and minds 
through Christ Jesus." — Philemon iv : 7. 



INDEX 



CARDINALS. 

Page 

Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston 53 

Cardinal Falconio, Apostolic Delegate to the United States ... 53 
Cadinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore 54 

PRIMATES. 

Primate of all Ireland, The Most Rev. William Alexander 54 

Primus of Scotland, The Most Rev. W. J. F. Robberds 54 

Primate of all Ireland, The Most Rev. John B. Crozier 54 

Primate of all Canada, The Most Rev. Samuel P. Matheson ... 55 

Primate of Ind'ia and Ceylon, The Most Rev. R. S. Copleston.. 55 

Primate of the West Indies, The Most Rev. Enos Nuttall .... 53 

METROPOLITANS. 

Metropolitan of Queensland, Australia, The Most Rev. St. C. 

G. A. Donaldson 56 

Metropolitan of South Africa, The Most Rev. William O. Bur- 
rows 56 

ARCHBISHOPS. 

Archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., The Most Rev. John Ireland . . 56 
Archbishop of Chicago, 111., The Most Rev. James Edward 

Quigley 56 

Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, The Most Rev. John J. Keane. . 57 

BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 

House of Bishops, General Convention, St. Louis, 1916. .. .71, 72, 73 
Bishop of Alabama, The Right Rev. Charles M. Beckwith .... 65 
Bishop Coadjutor of Albany, The Right Rev. Richard Henry 

Nelson " 65 

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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOPS— Continued. 

Page 

Bishop of Arizona, The Right Rev. J. M. Kendrick 64 

" Arkansas, The Right Rev. Wm. M. Brown 69 

" Asheville, N. C, The Right Rev. Junius M. Horner, 67 

" Atlanta, The Right Rev. Cleland K. Nelson 66 

" Bethlehem, The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot 58, 73 

" California, The Right Rev. William, F. Nichols .... 47 

" Central New York, The Right Rev. Charles Tyler 

Olmstead 69 

" Chicago, The Right Rev. C. P. Anderson 62 

" Connecticut, The Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster. 60 

" Delaware, The Right Rev. J. Frederick Kinsman . . 68 

" Delaware, The Right Rev. Leighton Coleman 17,43 

" Eastern Oregon, The Right Rev. Robert L. Pad- 
dock 10,65 

" Erie, The Right Rev. Rogers Israel 68 

" Florida, The Right Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed .... 66 

" Fond dlu Lac, The Right Rev. Reginald H. Weller.. 63 

" Fond du Lac, The Right Rev. Charles C. Grafton. . . 65 

" " Georgia, The Right Rev. Frederick F. Reese 69 

" Honolulu, The Right Rev. Henry B. Restarick 62 

" Idaho, The Right Rev. James B. Funsten 67 

" Indianapolis, The Right Rev. Joseph M. Frances . . 63 

" Kentucky, The Right Rev. T. U. Dudley 44 

" Kyoto, Japan, The Right Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, 70 

" Laramie, The Right Rev. Anson R. Graves 17,44 

" Lexington, Ky., The Right Rev. Lewis W. Burton. . 58 

" Long Island, The Right Rev. Frederick Burgess ... 63 

" " Los Angeles, The Right Rev. Joseph H. Johnson . . 64 

" " Louisiana, The Right Rev. Davis Sessums 66 

" Maine, The Right Rev. H., A. Neely 17,44 

" Marquette, Mich., The Right Rev. G. Mott Williams, 60 

" Maryland, The Right Rev. William Paret 71 

" Massachusetts, The Right Rev. William Lawrence.. 70 



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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOPS— Continued. 

Page 

Bishop of Mississippi, The Right Rev. Theodore D. Bratton . . 69 

" Missouri, The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle 46, 71 

" Montana, The Right Rev. Leigh R. Brewer 48 

" Nebraska, The Right Rev. G. Worthington 47 

" Nebraska, The Right Rev. Arthur L. Williams 65 

" " Nevada, The Right Rev. Henry D. Robinson 66 

" " New Jersey, The Right Rev. John Scarborough ... 17, 44 
" New Mexico and Arizona, The Right Rev. John Mills 

Kendrick 64 

" New Mexico, The Right Rev. Frederick B. Howden, 61 

" North Dakota, The Right Rev. Cameron Mann 70 

" New York, The Right Rev. Henry C. Potter .. .17,21,43 

" Ohio, The Right Rev. William A. Leonard 58 

" Olympia, Wash., The Right Rev. Frederick W. 

Keator 58 

" Oregon, The Right Rev. Charles Scadding 59 

" Pennsylvania, The Right Rev. Ozi W. Whitaker . . 64 
" Pennsylvania, The Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelan- 

der 68 

" the Philippines, The Right Rev. Charles Henry 

Brent 67 

" Pittsburgh, Pa., The Right Rev. Cortlandt White- 
head 59 

" Porto Rico, The Right Rev. James H. Van Buren .. 66 
" Quincy, 111., The Right Rev. M. Edward Fawcett . . 62 
" Rhode Island, The Right Rev. Thomas M. Clarke . . 45 
" Rhode Island, The Right Rev. Wm. N. McVicker . . 64 
" Sacramento, Cal., The Right Rev. William H. More- 
land 68,71 

" Shanghai, China, The Right Rev. Frederick R. 

Graves 61 

" Southern Florida, The Right Rev. William Crane 

Gray 63 



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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOPS— Continued. 

Page 



Bishop of Tennessee, The Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor 60 

" Tokyo, Japan, The Right Rev. John McKim 67 

" Washington, D. C, The Right Rev. Alfred Harding, 68 
" Western Massachusetts, The Right Rev. Alexander 

H. Vinton 60 

" Western Michigan, The Right Rev. John N. McCor- 

mick 70 

" West Missouri, The Right Rev. Edward 1 R. Atwill. . 64 

" West Texas, The Right Rev. James S. Johnson .... 61 

" West Virginia, The Right Rev. George W. Peterkin, 70 
" Wyoming, The Right Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas . . .59, 71 

Secretary of The House of Bishops, The Rev. Samuel Hart ... 73 

METHODIST-EPISCOPAL BISHOPS. 

Bishop of Chattanooga, Tenn., The Right Rev. William F. An- 
derson 74 

" Pekin, China, The Right Rev. J. W. Basford 74 

" Washington, D. C, The Right Rev. Earl Cranston.. 74 

" Chicago, 111., The Right Rev. William F. McDowell, 74 

" Omaha, Neb., The Right Rev. John L. Nuelson .... 74 
" St. Louis, Mo., The Right Rev. Henry Spellmeyer. .51, 73 

" Philadelphia, The Right Rev. Luther B. Wilson ... 74 

BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. 

Bishop of Newcastle 46 

" " Rochester 48 

" Peterborough 75 

" Ripon 75 

" Sheffield 75 

" Gloucester 77 

" Carlisle 75 

" Jarrow 76 



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BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH— Continued. 

Page 

Bishop of Wakefield 76 

" Bristol 76 

" Southwell 76 

" Thetford 76 

" Salisbury 76 

" Worcester 77 

" Stepney 77 

" Aberdeen and Orkney 77,78 

" Edinburgh 77 

" " Down, Connor and Dromore 78 

" Island of St. Helena 79 

" Island of Mauritius 79 

" Trinidad, W. I 79 

" " Lucknow, India 79 

" Lahore, India 80 

" Lebombo, Africa 80 

Bishop Coadjutor of Capetown, Africa 79 

Bishop of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia 81 

" Gippsland, Victoria, Australia 81 

" " Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 81 

" " North Queensland, Australia 81 

" Goulburn, New South Wales 82 

" Nelson, New Zealand 82 

" Auckland, New Zealand 82 

" " Melanesia, New Zealand 80 

" " Tasmania 82 

" Qubec, Canada, The Right Rev. Andrew H. Dunn . . 83 

" " Ontario, Canada, The Right Rev. William Lennox 

Mills 83 

" Toronto, Canada, The Right Rev. James Fielding 

Sweeney 83 

'! Algoma, Canada, The Right Rev. George Thorneloe, 82 



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BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH— Continued. 

Page 



Bishop of Niagara, Canada, The Right Rev. John Philip De- 

Moulin 84 

" Calgary, Canada, The Right Rev. William C. Pink- 
ham 83 

" Qu'Apelle, Canada, The Right Rev. John Grisdale . . 83 

" Keewatin, Canada, The Right Rev. Joseph Loft- 
house , 84 

" British Columbia, Canada, The Right Rev. William 

W. Perrin 80 

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The Assistant Bishop of Toronto, Canada, The Right Rev. Wil- 
liam D. Reeve 84 

THE SALVATION ARMY. 

General William Booth, Founder and Commander-in-Chief ... 57 

THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA. 

Ballington Booth, President 57 

MINISTERS. 

Protestant-Episcopal. 

The Rev. Ernest M. Stires, St. Thomas's Church, New York, 85 

" John S. Bunting, Christ Church, Macon, Ga 85 

" " Robert A. Edwards, St. John's Church, Holmesburg, 

Pa : 87 

" Robert Johnston, Church of the Saviour, Philadel- 
phia, Pa 88 

" William T. Manning, Trinity Church, New York ... 85 
(Now Bishop of New York.) 

" James S. Stone, St. James's Church, Chicago 86 

" Floyd W. Tomkins, Holy Trinity Church, Philadel- 
phia, Pa 86 

" Elwood Worcester, Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass., 87 
" William R. Turner, Memorial Church of St. Paul, 

Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa 86 



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MINISTERS— Continued. 

Page 

The Very Rev. Winfred H. Ziegler, Archdeacon, St. John's Ca- 
thedral, Albuquerque, N. M 87 

The Rev. Louis C. Washburn, Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa., 85 
" " Alexander Mann, Trinity Church, Boston, Mass. ... 86 

Presbyterian. 

The Rev. W. H. Roberts, Stated 1 Clerk and Treasurer, General 

Assembly, Philadelphia, Pa 88 

" " Perry S. Allen, President, Presbyterian Ministers' 

Fund, Philadelphia, Pa 88 

John Grant Newman, The Chambers Wylie Memo- 
rial Church, Philadelphia, Pa 89 

" W. C. Robinson, Northminster Church, Philadel- 
phia, Pa 89 

" Guido Bossard, Overbrook Presbyterian Church, 

Philadelphia, Pa 89 

Samuel Y. Nicholls, Second Presbyterian Church, 

St. Louis, Mo 89 

George Rutger Brauer, First Presbyterian Church, 

Setauket, L. 1 90 

W. Lyall Wilson, Dundee, Scotland 90 



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Baptist. 

The Rev. George D. Adams, Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 

Philadelphia, Pa 92 

A. C. Applegarth, Chestnut Hill Baptist Church, 

Philadelphia, Pa 92 

George Dana Boardman, First Baptist Church, Phila- 
delphia, Pa 12,38,48 

Walter Calley, First Baptist Church, Jamaica Plain, 

Boston, Mass 90 

W. C. Golden, Corresponding Secretary, Tennessee 

Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn 92 



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MINISTERS— Continued. 

Page 



The Rev. H. C. Rosamond, First Baptist Church, Eldorado, 

Ark 91 

" L. Walton Terry, N. W. Baptist Convention, Ta- 

coma, Wash 91 

" " George L. White, General Missionary, Salt Lake City, 

Utah 91 

" " Kerr Boyce Tupper, First Baptist Church, Philadel- 
phia, Pa 92 

" David Carol Williams, First Baptist Church, Globe, 

Ariz 91 

" George W. Truett, First Baptist Church, Dallas, Tex., 93 
" Hulbert G. Beeman, Walnut Street Baptist Church, 

Waterloo, Iowa 91 

Lutheran. 

The Rev. J. Eugene Dietterich, St. Paul's, Glenside, Pa 93 

" E. P. Pfatteicher, Holy Communion, Philadelphia, 

Pa 93 

" H. H. Weber, General Secretary, York, Pa 93 

" S. A. Ziegenfuss, St. Michael's, Germantown, Phila- 
delphia, Pa 94 

Methodist. 

The Rev. W. Bamford, Cookman Church, Philadelphia, Pa. ... 94 
" R. W. Webb, A. M. E. Church, Marche, Ark 95 

First Church of Christ. 

The Rev. Oscar Edward Maurer, First Church of Christ, New 

Haven, Conn 95 

Bible Christian Church. 

The Rev. Henry S. Clubb, Bible Christian Church, Philadel- 
phia, Pa 95 

George Hamilton Combs, Independence Boulevard 

Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo 96 



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MINISTERS— Continued. 
Congregational Church. Page 
The Rev. William V. Berg, Central Church, Philadelphia 96 

Evangelists. 

The Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, President of the Family Altar 

League, Chicago, 111 96 



Hebrew Church. 

Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Philadelphia, Pa 96 

Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Philadelphia, Pa 97 

BIBLE, SUNDAY SCHOOL, CHRISTIAN AND 
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. 

International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, 

G. S. Eddy, Associate General Secretary 100 

International Sunday School Association, E. K. Mohr, Superin- 
tendent Purity Department 97 

International Sunday School Association, William Hamilton, 

Chairman, Home and Visitation Committee .... 100 

Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association, W. G. Landes, 

General Secretary 97 

Philadelphia County Sunday School Association, Emilie F. 

Kearney, Teacher, Training Superintendent .... 98 

Federation Women's Bible Classes, Annie Townsend Scribner, 

President 99 

Bethany (John Wanamaker's) Sunday School, Philadelphia, D. 

L. Anderson, Assistant Superintendent, 25 Years, 99 

American Red Cross, Philadelphia Chapter, David H. Wright, 

Secretary 99 

World's Conference on Faith and Order, Robert H. Gardner, 

Secretary 100 

Incorporated Synod, Diocese of Toronto, W. S. Battin, Secre- 
tary and Registrar 101 



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BIBLE, SUNDAY SCHOOL, ASSOCIATIONS^Continued. 

Page 

St. Andrew's Cross, Hubert Carleton, General Secretary and 



Editor 100 

The Home Missionary Society of the City of Philadelphia, 

George H. Stuart, Jr., President 17,98 

PRESIDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES 
AND SEMINARIES. 

I 

Brown University, W. H. P. Faunce, President 102 

Valparaiso University, Henry B. Brown, President 101 

University of Michigan, James B. Angell, President 102 

University of Pennsylvania, Edgar F. Smith, Provost 102 

University of Texas, Sidney E. Mezes, President 103 

University of Kansas, Frank Strong, Chancellor 104 

Leland Standford, Jr., University, David Starr Jordan, President, 103 

Lehigh University, Henry S. Drinker, President 103 

Ohio University, Alston Ellis, President 103 

Northwestern University, A. W. Harris, President 103 

Williamette University, Fletcher Homan, President 106 

University of Pennsylvania, Josiah, H. Penniman, Provost ... 13, 103 

Iowa State College, A. B. Storms, President 102 

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson, President 106 

Lincoln Memorial University, W. P. Fairchild, President 105 

Tufts College, Mass., F. W. Hamilton, President 102 

Pennsylvania State College, Edwin W. Sparks, President 104 

Franklin and Marshall College, J. H. Stahr, President 105 

Berkeley Divinity School, Rev. Samuel Hart, Dean 73, 107 

Margaret College, Kentucky, Lewis W Burton, President .... 107 

Drew Theological Seminary, Henry A Buttz, President 104 

Augustana College, Gustav Andreen, President 105 

Auburn Theological Seminary, George B. Stewart, President . . 105 



German Theological School, Newark, D. R. Frazer, President, 106 



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OTHER EDUCATORS. 

Page 

Charles F. Kent, Professor of Bible Literature, Yale University, 107 
Guido Bossard, Professor of Bible Literature, Du Buque Uni- 
versity 89 

Warren Powers Laird, Dean, Department of Architecture, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania 11,108 

William Draper Lewis, Dean, Law School, University of Penn- 
sylvania 108 

George E. Nitzsche, Recorder, University of Pennsylvania .... 109 
Richard M. Jones, Head Master, William Penn Charter School, 

Philadelphia, Pa 109 



ACACIA FRATERNITY. 

Acacia Fraternity, Cornell University, Allen Jayne, Secretary, 109 
" " University of Chicago, Donald J. Pope, Sec- 
retary 109 

" " Columbia University, New York, E. P. Hum- 
phrey, Secretary 110 

Columbia University, New York, H. H. 

Holmes, President 110 

Harvard University, Floyd L. Duxbury, 

Secretary 110 

University of Kansas, Walter G. Theile, 

Secretary 110 

University of Michigan, L. S. Mercer, Sec- 
retary Ill 

OTHER PROMINENT LAYMEN. 

Hon. Hampton L. Carson, President, American Bar Association, 111 
Hon. George Wharton Pepper, United States Senator from 

Pennsylvania Ill 

Hon. George B. Orlady, President Judge, Superior Court of 

- Pennsylvania Ill 



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Charles F. Gallagher, Counselor at Law, Boston, Mass Ill 

John A. Dix, ex-Governor of the State of New York 112 

William Homan, Provincial Grand Treasurer for the U. S. Royal 

Order of Scotland, New York 112 

W. D. Vincent, Vice-President, Old National Bank, Spokane, 

Wash 112 

Mrs. Ida M. Ryan, Suffern, N. Y 112 

Brig.-Gen. F. S. Strong, U. S. Army 112 

R. E. Field, Banker, Cincinnati, Ohio 113 

Mary Dunn Kuser, Bordentown, N. J 113 

Ellen E. Fay, Missionary, Faith Mission Kanbalu, Burma, India, 99 
Alba B. Johnson, President Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila- 
delphia, Pa 113 

Howard B. French, President, Philadelphia Chamber of Com- 
merce 113 

George H. Stuart, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa 17,99 

Francis B. Reeves, Philadelphia, Pa. 113 

John S. Bioren, President, Merchants' Union Trust Company, 

Philadelphia, Pa 114 

John A. Wiedersheim, Philadelphia, Pa 114 

John McMurdie Warner, Philadelphia, Pa 114 

George Bradford Carr, Member of the Philadelphia Bar 114 

Rufus J. Foster, M. E., Scranton, Pa 115 

William Waterall, Philadelphia, Pa 115 

NEWSPAPERS. 

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